Johnetta Carr claimed in a lawsuit filed Dec. 2020 that she was 16 when police accused her of murdering her boyfriend and that during the course of the investigation, detectives fabricated and coerced witnesses into saying that she was involved with his murder.
Kentucky is one of 13 states that doesn’t compensate people wrongfully convicted.
This is now the second time a lawsuit previously dismissed based on the lack of details in Bevin’s pardons has been overturned by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The ruling will allow two previously dismissed wrongful conviction lawsuits to proceed against Louisville police.
He spent nearly a decade in prison before new technology helped prove his innocence in 2009.
Bevin’s pardon ended up prompting a judge to dismiss a suit recently – because the pardon included no finding or evidence showing the person was innocent.
Johnetta Carr was 16 when she was accused of murdering her boyfriend outside of his Louisville apartment on Kingston Ave. but she says she was innocent of the crime all along.
