Stealing 18 years of Caramad Conley's life

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Quote:Federal lawsuit against SF in wrongful conviction
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"In addition to stealing 18 years of Caramad Conley's life, and consigning him to spend his youth and early adulthood in physical confinement in a prison cell with no legal justification, the sort of flagrant and deliberate misconduct at issue in this case threatens the legitimacy of the American system of justice," said Conley's suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

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Miller also found that then-homicide investigator Earl Sanders, who would later become police chief, had stood by in court while Polk lied.

"I find that Sanders knew the testimony was false and did not correct it," Miller wrote.

In his suit, Conley said police "unconstitutionally and maliciously sent him to prison for a crime he did not commit" by "willfully suppressing a mountain of exculpatory evidence showing that the linchpin witness against him, Clifford Polk, had been paid thousands of dollars and received other benefits in exchange for his testimony."

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...z1lXrDZl2p

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