Debra Milke Murder Case

Mar 27, 2015

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Attorneys for Debra Milke filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, former Phoenix Police Detective Armando Saldate, several Phoenix police officers, sergeants, and lieutenants, a forensic anthropologist, an acting criminalist in the City of Phoenix Crime Laboratory, and the acting Assistant Chief Medical Examiner for the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office, alleging multiple civil rights violations and malicious prosecution.

Mar 24, 2015

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Rosa Mroz dismissed murder charges against Debra Milke. Milke has been incarcerated and on death row for 23 years for the December 1989 murder of her 4-year-old son.

Mar 17, 2015

The Arizona Supreme Court rejected appeals by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to reinstate murder charges against Debra Milke.

Dec 11, 2014

In Phoenix, Arizona, the Arizona Court of Appeals ordered a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to dismiss murder charges against Debra Milke, citing "egregious prosecutorial misconduct".

Sep 6, 2013

Pending a retrial, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Rosa Mroz ruled that Debra Milke can be released on a secured bond of $250,000.

In March, 2013, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Debra Milke's conviction and death sentence because the prosecution had failed to turn over evidence about Phoenix police detective Armando Saldate. That evidence was the personnel record of Saldate, which showed misconduct, including lying under oath, in other cases. Saldate claimed that Milke confessed to him, but there are no witnesses to the confession, nor was the confession recorded.

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