MINNEAPOLIS — A Hennepin County judge has vacated a first-degree murder conviction in a 2008 Minneapolis nightclub shooting after a new review of the case.
Jerrell Michael Brown, 38, has spent nearly 18 years in prison after being convicted in the shooting death of Darius Ormond Miller. However, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said advancements in technology led experts to re-examine key evidence.
In a news release, the county attorney’s office said ballistics evidence in Brown’s original trial was inconclusive, and he was ultimately convicted based on “a mix of circumstantial evidence and incentivized witnesses, including two jailhouse informants who received benefits in their own cases in exchange for their testimony.”…