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Burton Walker Case Study

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Burton accessed Law books while incarcerated and started filing his own legal motions, writing hundreds of letters proclaiming his innocence to elected officials. Burton obtained several affidavits from Simmons acquaintances who confirmed Simmons had admitted his perjury to them. In 2008, Centurion Ministries began investigating Darryl’s conviction, after this evidence investigators tried to located Walker however, could not interview Walker due to his death occurring in November 1996. Burton’s investigators tracked down Walker’s friend, Daniel Pennington who was drinking outside of another friend’s house near the Amoco station during the time of Ball’s murder. It was confirmed that Walker could of not identify the shooter since where they were standing, the shooting could not be seen and the fact that he had poor eyesight and never wore his glasses while drinking confirmed that he would have not been able to see the shooter due to different factors not being in his favor. …show more content…

Investigators located Jennifer Shaw, a woman who was present during the Amaco shooting, Shaw told investigators she knew Burtons and, had seen the shooting however that she did not know the identity of the shooter, Shaw also mentioned she would have testified if contacted. Investigators gathered evidence that pointed to the actual shooter who was a man by the name of Jesse Watson, who is deceased but had allegedly feuding with Ball and vowed to murder him due to a drug turf war between

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