PORTER, ANTHONY & ALSTORY SIMON: A Murder in the Park TV -
110,547. ‘How does an innocent man sit on Death Row for fifteen years.’ (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) A Murder in the Park, CI 2017, news
110,548. In 1983 Anthony Porter was sentenced to death for the murders of teenagers Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green at the Washington Park swimming pool on Chicago’s south side. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
110,549. Allegation of police brutality and coerced confessions were now commonplace. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
110,550. In 1996 protests freed four convicted murderers, two of them from Death Row, in the case known as the Ford Heights 4. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
110,551. ‘There was one problem: Anthony Porter killed those two people – it was one big lie.’ (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid. Attorney
110,552. ‘There were six witnesses implicating Anthony Porter.’ ibid.