WOSU News » dewey jones http://wosu.org/2012/news Your All Day NPR News Station Mon, 20 May 2013 17:23:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Your All Day NPR News Station WOSU News no Your All Day NPR News Station WOSU News » dewey jones http://wosu.org/2012/news/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://wosu.org/2012/news Akron Man Gets New Trial After 17 Years Behind Bars http://wosu.org/2012/news/2012/07/10/akron-man-gets-new-trial-after-17-years-behind-bars/ http://wosu.org/2012/news/2012/07/10/akron-man-gets-new-trial-after-17-years-behind-bars/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:16:47 +0000 WOSU News Staff http://wosu.org/2012/news/?p=31631 An Akron man who’s maintained his innocence on a murder conviction for the last 17 years is getting a new trial.

Dewey Jones was sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for murder of an elderly man, but recent DNA testing showed blood found at the crime scene did not comes from Jones.

A Summit county judge yesterday ruled that throws into question the state’s entire case against Jones.

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