Death row inmate claims police abuse
On the second days a special hearing before a judge in Missouri, Clemons, 41, said that when charges were read against him in 1991 a judge noticed signs he had been hit and ordered him to be examined in hospital, said Laura Moye of Amnesty International-USA.
Clemons attorneys maintain that Clemons only admitted raping among his victims under police duress. He later reversed himself.
Clemons was found guilty in 1993 of the murder of two sisters, aged 19 and 20, who allegedly were pushed from a bridge into the Mississippi River in 1991.
The events occurred at Chain of Rocks Bridge, a popular hangout at night for balenciaga heelsths from Saint Louis, where Clemons and three friends arrived to connection with the two sisters, Julie and Robin Kerry, and their cousin Thomas Cummins.
The group Clemons was with is purported to have raped the ladies and robbed Cummins before pushing them off the bridge.
Amnesty International has pushed for the state to commute Clemons death sentence because of allegations of police coercion, prosecutorial misconduct along with a stacked predominantly white jury.
An old lawyer for Clemons testified Monday that he had not been informed concerning the existence of DNA samples taken from among the bodies recovered from the Mississippi.
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