A man wants his 76-year sentence for murder overturned because the key witness was legally blind
Darien Harris, now 26, is challenging his murder conviction based on the discovery that the prosecution's key eyewitness was blind. By Marisa Iati Marisa Iati Email Bio Follow May 14 at 5:12 PM Ronald Moore was in the back seat of a car on a June night in 2011, court records say, when the car started to overheat. His younger brother, Rondell Moore, pulled into a BP gas station parking lot on the South Side of Chicago to buy antifreeze, and a mechanic took a look under the hood.
A private investigator working for Harris found a 2003 housing discrimination lawsuit in which Saffold said he had glaucoma, Harris’s attorney, Jodi Garvey, told The Washington Post. A letter from a doctor, attached to the lawsuit, said Saffold was legally blind and permanently disabled, with “markedly reduced vision, especially at night.”Ford said during the trial in 2014 that Harris’s case “begins and ends with Mr. Saffold,” whose testimony was “unblemished,” according to court records.
Saffold’s eyesight came up briefly during the trial: Harris’s trial attorney asked Saffold if his diabetes affected his vision, and he said yes, according to Garvey. Then Saffold paused and changed his answer: “No, it does not.” Garvey also said surveillance video of the gas station shows someone on a motorized scooter approaching the building only after the shooter had left the camera’s view. Saffold therefore could not have seen the shooting happen just feet away from him, as he had testified, Garvey said. She said the surveillance video and other exculpatory evidence were not presented at trial.
A spokeswoman for the State’s Attorney’s Office confirmed that its conviction integrity unit was reviewing the case but declined to comment further. Harris is also appealing his conviction in the Illinois Supreme Court.
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