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-- he also identified his eyes as gray; Al-Amin's are brown;
-- his attire didn't match clothing the shooter wore;
-- blood found at the scene was discounted and unchecked;
-- potentially exculpatory evidence relating to the sheriff's vehicle was either lost or destroyed;
-- a man named Otis Jackson confessed to the crime; it was ignored, never introduced at trial, days later Jackson recanted, and the defense team never got a chance to interview him; and
-- withheld evidence and proceedings were so controversial that observers believed Brown was convicted pre-trial for his civil rights activism and conversion to Islam; he was clearly a targeted man;
It became clearer when the Georgia Supreme Court agreed that the prosecution committed a grave constitutional error when, in closing arguments, the assistant district attorney directed jurors to consider posed questions relating to Al-Amin's failure to present testimony or evidence. Nonetheless, the Court upheld the verdict.
Afterward, his legal team filed a habeas corpus writ citing gross irregularities, including:
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