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A big victory Thursday for the Mississippi Innocence Project, with a ruling by the state's Supreme Court that a woman imprisoned for the last 11 years is entitled to a new trial. Multiple issues have surfaced calling into question Tameshia Shelton's conviction. An inexperienced medical examiner now admits his conclusion that a man's death was a homicide was an error, and Shelton's own attorney failed to introduce at trial a su***de note the man had left behind.

Court paves way for new murder trial for Tameshia Shelton - Mississippi Today In a 6-1 vote Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court let stand a state Court of Appeals decision, ordering a new trial for Tameshia Shelton.

A little different spin on this case from , but one that offers insights into the current state of the system. Anthony Hayes has spent the last five years under indictment in a cold case from 1988, and now the prosecutor has dropped the charges.

“I feel like it’s been a miscarriage of justice,” Hayes said. “I feel wore down. I feel broke down, man. All my (funds) being deleted down to nothing. My 401(k), I pulled everything out of there. I lost my business in Arizona. I lost my marriage. I lost my home. I lost everything.”

And his attorney admits that because of the immunity that prosecutors operate under, there's probably not any recourse for all of that available to Hayes. At the time in 2021 when investigators believed they had solved a cold case murder, the key they apparently were relying on were what was reported to be blood-stained jeans obtained from Hayes' sister. Subsequent testing, though, has proven "inconclusive," in the words of the prosecutors.

Mobile man decries ‘miscarriage of justice’ after murder charge finally dropped in cold case Five years after his indictment on a murder charge and nearly 40 years after the slaying, Anthony Lorenzo Hayes is a free man. Mobile County prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss the charge.