A Utah man convicted and then acquitted for the murder of his wife in 2012 won his bid to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the state’s prosecutor Monday.
According to Conrad Truman, prosecutor Craig Johnson intentionally elicited false information from a medical examiner at his first trial after providing the expert inaccurate information about the area in his home in Orem, Utah, where his wife was shot.
The prosecution claimed that Truman shot his wife, while Truman has maintained the fatal gunshot wound was self-inflicted.
At the first trial, the government’s case relied on the medical examiner’s testimony to ...
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