HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Some say time brings healing, but for Michael Sockwell, time brings a second look at his case after being on death row for more than three decades.
“It has to be a fair shake, and that’s what happened in this case, that it wasn’t,” Madison County Chief Deputy District Attorney Tim Gann said.
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A jury convicted Sockwell of murdering Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Isaiah Harris in 1988. Sockwell later appealed the decision.
Two of three judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Sockwell’s favor, deciding his 14th Amendment rights were violated during the jury selection process before his 1990 trial…