Retarded Man’s Murder Conviction Thrown Out
From Times Wire Reports
A federal judge in Miami threw out a murder conviction against a mentally retarded man in the 1990 killing of a sheriff’s deputy, ordering the state to either retry the inmate or set him free him within 90 days.
U.S. District Judge Donald Graham found fault with the way Broward County sheriff’s detectives got Timothy Brown to waive his right to remain silent.
Brown, who was 15 at the time of the killing and had a mental age of 7 or 8.
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