US Supreme Court denies Crosley Green’s petition in murder case

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Green could end up going back to prison for murder he says he didn’t commit

Crosley Green fighting to stay free after conviction overturned

ORLANDO, Fla. – Crosley Green, the man who spent 32 years in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, may end up going back to prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to hear his case.

Green, 65, was convicted in the 1989 shooting death of 21-year-old Charles Flynn in Brevard County. Flynn’s girlfriend claimed they were robbed by a man while in a secluded area of a park, then driven to a citrus grove, where Flynn was shot and Hallock fled.

Green was sentenced to death, then resentenced to life in prison in 2009.

In 2018, a U.S. district court ruled prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence that police suspected it was Hallock who killed Flynn, not Green. A legal rule called the Brady Doctrine says that prosecutors must turn over evidence that could be favorable for the accused.

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Green was released from prison in 2021.

However, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody appealed the ruling, and last year an appeals court ruled overturned the district court, saying the conviction was improperly overturned.

Attorneys for Green say the decision by the Supreme Court may lead to Green going back to prison.

A news conference is expected at 1:30 p.m. Monday, with Green, his family, attorneys and two other Brevard County men, William Dillon and Wilton Dedge, who were exonerated for crimes they didn’t commit.

News 6 plans to stream the news conference when it happens.

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