Judge: Clear Ky. record of former death row inmate at On the Beat in the Bluegrass

Judge: Clear Ky. record of former death row inmate

Published

on December 5, 2008

. Tags: Death Row, murder, rape, U.S. District Court.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Kentucky to expunge the record of a man who was once on Death Row.

U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves’s order on Thursday clears the record of 62-year-old Eugene Williams Gall in the kidnapping, rape and death of 12-year-old Lisa Jansen in 1978.

A federal appeals court overturned Gall’s conviction in 2001 saying prosecutors failed to prove key elements of the case and that the prohibition against double jeopardy forbade a retrial.

Kentucky turned Gall over to Ohio, where he is serving a life sentence for rape and murder.

Gall’s attorney, public defender Tim Arnold, says the decision may make it easier for him to argue for parole in 2021. A message left with the Montgomery County, Ohio, prosecutor’s office, was not immediately returned Friday.

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Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

Shawntaye Hopkins is the Herald-Leader’s police reporter, covering local law enforcement, fire and EMS and breaking news. She joined the staff in September 2006 as the newspaper’s night police reporter. Shawntaye, a Louisville native, graduated from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism and criminology. Shawntaye resides in Lexington.

Delano Massey is the Herald-Leader’s Regional Editor. He works closely with the paper’s bureau reporters and police and courts reporters to plan coverage, pursue breaking news and seek out enterprise stories. A Northeast Ohio native, Delano started his journalism career as a night cops reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat. In 2003, he made the trek to Lexington to take the reins as the newspaper’s daytime cops reporter. Delano, a graduate of the University of Akron, has won numerous awards for breaking news, spot news and investigative journalism.

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