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Friday 17 March 2017
Police: 3-year-old girl lived alone with dead mom for days

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) been in day care for sev- Police said they found no wrong. who has custody of the
— A 3-year-old girl lived eral days. Police identified evidence of a crime or “I was mortified,” Tash child. The state Depart-
alone with her dead moth- the mother on Thursday as break-in. Investigators are said after Toler’s body was ment of Children and Fami-
er for several days in their Twanna Toler. awaiting results of an au- found. “It hit me hard be- lies was called in.
apartment with nothing to Lt. Joshua Litwin said in- topsy by the medical ex- cause the noise upstairs Court records show Toler
eat but cereal that had vestigators do not know aminer’s office. and I felt kind of respon- had a criminal record that
spilled on a floor, police of- exactly how long the girl A neighbor, Susan Tash, sible.” included narcotics posses-
ficials said. had been living alone but said the television in Toler’s The social worker who went sion. Records show she was
Authorities said the child’s said it was “definitely more apartment was very loud to the apartment Monday arrested on a misdemeanor
37-year-old mother was than a couple of days.” over the past week, and knocked on the door and larceny charge in October
found dead in a bedroom The girl was dehydrated she heard the girl scream got the child to unlock it, and was supposed to ap-
of the East Hartford home but is expected to be OK, and cry. She said she just Litwin said. The girl believed pear in court for the case
on Monday when a social Litwin said. She was taken thought the child was be- her mother was sleeping, Thursday. She had pleaded
worker went to check on to Connecticut Children’s ing fussy. She said she the officer said. not guilty.q
the girl because she hadn’t Medical Center in Hartford. had no idea anything was It wasn’t immediately clear

Man exonerated for LA murder walks free after 32 years

fought for Wilson’s release, something to eat right now
pointed to numerous due- and love my family.”
process violations. If he didn’t eat soon, “I’m
“It’s been a nightmare but going to eat my shoes,”
I survived and got to the Wilson joked.
end of the road,” Wilson Wilson will travel as soon as
said. he can to St. Louis to visit his
Wearing a red Loyola shirt, 96-year-old mother, Mar-
Wilson held hands with his gie Davis, who was a tire-
sister and daughter. His less advocate for his inno-
15-year-old granddaugh- cence over the decades,
ter was by their sides. according to his lawyer,
Wilson said he holds no bit- Paula Mitchell.
terness because that would Mitchell said before the
be “a waste of time.” hearing that numerous
“Believe it or not, I think I’m due-process violations re-
all right upstairs,” he said, cently came to light that
drawing laughter from his showed Wilson did not re-
family members. ceive a fair trial.
“I still have a parent,” Wil- She pointed particularly to
son’s daughter, Catrina a weeks-long delay before
Burks, 43, of Muskegon, police began canvassing
Andrew Wilson, center, is accompanied by his granddaughter Souriya Hemphill, left and his
daughters, Catrina Burks, second from left and Gwen Wilson, as he leaves the Men’s Central Michigan. “It’s been a long for suspects with Hanson’s
Jail in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Wilson, whose murder conviction was tossed by a 32 years and I’m glad that girlfriend, Saladena Bishop,
California judge is free after 32 years in prison. it’s over...I stayed hopeful who was 17 at the time.
(AP Photo/Nick Ut) all the way,” said Gwen Bishop was the prosecu-
Wilson, 49, of Inglewood, tion’s only eyewitness.
ROBERT JABLON committing. nocence since his arrest in California. Among missteps by the
Associated Press Wilson, 62, was released 1984 for the stabbing death She was 14 when her broth- prosecution was the sup-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An- from the Los Angeles Coun- of Christopher Hanson, 21, er was sent to prison. pression of evidence that
drew Leander Wilson, a ty Men’s Central Jail down- in Los Angeles. “It was scary because it is Bishop previously filed a
broad smile on his face town into a sea of cameras A day earlier, Superior my brother and he would false police report accus-
and no bitterness in his and cheers and applause Court Judge Laura Priver never come back; that’s ing another man of rape,
heart, clasped hands with from university law students ordered Wilson released af- what I thought in the mo- according to court papers
his family on his first day who worked to free him. ter prosecutors conceded ment,” she said. filed by Mitchell and other
of freedom Thursday after “This is unbelievable. This is he did not get a fair trial. Asked what he thought of attorneys with Loyola Law
spending 32 years in prison unbelievable,” Wilson said. Loyola Law School’s Proj- his prosecutor, he said, “I’m School’s Project for the
for a murder he denied Wilson maintained his in- ect for the Innocent, which past it. I just want to go get Innocent.q

Disbarred lawyer gets 40 years for kidnap once called hoax

DON THOMPSON Huskins described the two Her boyfriend, Aaron recommend 40 years in ex- year sentence, saying his
Associated Press days of physical and psy- Quinn, who was bound and change for pleading guilty client has been diagnosed
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) chological torture she en- drugged in the couple’s to kidnapping in Septem- as manic and depressive
— A disbarred Harvard dured after Matthew Muller home during the kidnap- ber. and can be rehabilitated
University-trained attorney snatched her from her San ping, said he “cannot and In court, Muller said he with proper treatment.
was sentenced to 40 years Francisco Bay Area home will not ever be the same.” was “sick with shame” for Muller used a remote-
in prison Thursday after two years ago. U.S. District Judge Troy the “pain and horror” he controlled drone to spy on
emotional testimony from “You treated me like an ob- Nunley called the abduc- caused. He looked straight Huskins and Quinn before
his victims in a kidnapping ject, a toy, an animal,” she tion a “heinous, atrocious, ahead and showed no he broke into their Vallejo
so elaborate and bizarre said, fighting back tears. “I horrible crime” as he sen- emotion as he was sen- home, tied up the couple
that police in California ini- still have nightmares every tenced Muller, 39. He had tenced. and made them drink a
tially dismissed it as a hoax. night. ... Sleep is not rest for faced up to life in prison, Defense attorney Thomas sleep-inducing liquid, pros-
In court, victim Denise me. It is a trigger.” but prosecutors agreed to Johnson argued for a 30- ecutors said. q