It’s been almost two months since the hearing to vacate the sentence of Christopher Dunn, who was convicted in 1991 for killing 15-year-old Ricco Rogers. A judge sentenced Dunn to life without the possibility of parole at that time.
“The circuit attorney’s office argues the original trial relied heavily on two witnesses who were with Ricco Rogers when he was shot to death in May of 1990 in North St. Louis. Those two witnesses were 12-year-old Michael Davis Jr. and 14-year-old Demorris Stepp. The state opposes this effort, arguing Dunn should remain in prison, both Stepp and Davis recanted their testimonies years later.”
“To back up Wilson’s assertion that it would have been too dark for the eyewitnesses to see well enough to make a positive identification, Christopher Dunn’s team had Scott Roder, a crime scene reconstruction expert, present an animation of the shooting based on the evidence gathered for previous attempts to free Dunn from prison.
But Roder said under cross-examination that his animation did not include certain parts of statements from one eyewitness, DeMorris Stepp, who had said he saw the shooter in the gangway. He also acknowledged that he did not go to the scene at 5607 Labadie to see if there were other streetlights that could have affected the ability of eyewitnesses to see. Google Maps shows a streetlight just a few houses from the location, though Eugene Wilson testified the light was blocked by a tree.”
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