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New state attorney withdraws request to test evidence in Tommy Zeigler death penalty case
Read full article: New state attorney withdraws request to test evidence in Tommy Zeigler death penalty caseNine months after former Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell asked a judge for permission to test fingerprint evidence in a 1975 quadruple murder that landed Tommy Zeigler on Florida’s Death Row, Worrell’s successor as state attorney has withdrawn the request.
State Attorney Worrell seeks new fingerprint exams in Tommy Zeigler case
Read full article: State Attorney Worrell seeks new fingerprint exams in Tommy Zeigler caseOrange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is seeking to examine decades-old fingerprint evidence in the case of Tommy Zeigler, a Winter Garden man who’s been on Florida’s Death Row since a judge sentenced him for the 1975 quadruple murder of his wife, in-laws, and a customer inside his family’s furniture store.
Florida AG Moody dismisses appeal blocking DNA testing for Tommy Zeigler
Read full article: Florida AG Moody dismisses appeal blocking DNA testing for Tommy ZeiglerThe office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Monday voluntarily dismissed an appeal meant to block DNA testing for William “Tommy” Zeigler, a 77-year-old man convicted of killing four people in 1975.
Prosecutor grants DNA testing in death row case involving 2 Orlando murders
Read full article: Prosecutor grants DNA testing in death row case involving 2 Orlando murdersFor the second time in recent weeks, a Florida prosecutor is granting DNA testing for a death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for more than four decades.