Levon "Bo" Jones is an American former

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inmate.

Conviction and release

Jones was convicted and sentenced to death in

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in 1993 on a count of

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for a fatal shooting which occurred in 1987. The conviction was overturned by a federal judge in 2006 for inadequate defense from his attorney. While preparing for retrial, a key witness admitted to lying. Charges were subsequently dropped, and Jones was released from prison on May 2, 2008, after spending fifteen years on death row. Jones was the third person to be released from death row in the

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in 2008, after Kennedy Brewer and Glen Chapman, following an overturning of their convictions and the dropping of charges.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Levon Overturned convictions in the United States Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American people wrongfully convicted of murder

Conviction and release

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