'You took 32 years of my life': Freed man accuses LAPD detective of manipulating eyewitness ID
LOS ANGELES - The teenager stared at 16 mug shots, searching for the face of the man had who stabbed her boyfriend to death while they slept in his pickup truck in South L.A.
It was November 1984 - a month after the slaying - and Saladena Bishop already had pointed police toward two suspects who were quickly ruled out. Now, Los Angeles police Detective Richard Marks had a new photo lineup, and he drew her attention to No. 7.
"What about him?" the detective asked, referring to a picture of Andrew Wilson.
Bishop said that was the man - she was nearly certain, according to Marks.
Wilson, who always maintained his innocence, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in a case that relied almost entirely on the witness's identification. More than three decades passed before a judge in 2017 threw out the conviction and freed him.
A civil rights lawsuit filed this week by
