WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is weighing whether to overturn the convictions of seven men in the brutal beating death of a woman about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the U.S. Capitol in 1984.
The justices heard competing accounts Wednesday of the murder of 48-year-old Catherine Fuller. Police said Fuller was attacked on a street, dragged into an alley, beaten and brutally sodomized with a pole in a group attack by members of a neighborhood gang. Her body was left in a garage.
Seven men who were convicted argue that prosecutors failed to turn over evidence suggesting Fuller was not the victim of a group attack. They say prosecutors did not provide their lawyers with evidence implicating another man with a record of violent attacks against women as Fuller’s killer.
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