Golf Digest, a publication not widely known for investigative journalism, is being credited with helping to overturn the wrongful murder conviction of an innocent man.
On Wednesday, Valentino Dixon, 48, gained his freedom in a Buffalo, N.Y., courtroom after 27 years behind bars for a crime that prosecutors now say he did not commit.
“They were kind of the first stone that started rolling down a hill as far as reinvestigation of the case,” Donald M. Thompson, an attorney who represented Dixon for 20 years, told TheWrap on Thursday. “They kind of started the avalanche here.”
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That avalanche began in 2012 when Golf Digest ran a profile of Dixon, who was serving a 39-years-to-life sentence for the murder of Torriano Jackson at a party in 1991.
The magazine’s interest in the case was sparked by Dixon’s hobby of...
On Wednesday, Valentino Dixon, 48, gained his freedom in a Buffalo, N.Y., courtroom after 27 years behind bars for a crime that prosecutors now say he did not commit.
“They were kind of the first stone that started rolling down a hill as far as reinvestigation of the case,” Donald M. Thompson, an attorney who represented Dixon for 20 years, told TheWrap on Thursday. “They kind of started the avalanche here.”
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That avalanche began in 2012 when Golf Digest ran a profile of Dixon, who was serving a 39-years-to-life sentence for the murder of Torriano Jackson at a party in 1991.
The magazine’s interest in the case was sparked by Dixon’s hobby of...
- 9/20/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
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