Could a tossed murder conviction have ripple effects in other homicide cases involving a former Milwaukee police detective?
“How many cases are going to get overturned because of this guy’s involvement in cases? And if that’s how easy this is, what the hell are we doing?” Zachary Zdroik said.
The question is being raised after a Racine County judge granted the defendant, Miguel Cruz, a new trial. Court documents show that one of the main reasons is that the defendant’s attorney failed to alert the jury to former Detective Gilbert Hernandez’s alleged credibility concerns. A second problem identified by Cruz’s legal team centers around how a DNA analyst presented DNA evidence…