#Maya moore house trial#
The only physical evidence was a fingerprint that did not belong to Irons and in March a judge overturned the 50-year sentence on the grounds that the case was "very weak."įinally, this week the prosecutor has decided not to ask for a repeat of the trial and, after 22 years, Jonathan Irons has been released. Throughout these years, Maya Moore kept in touch with and visits to the prison, and hired a team of luxury defense attorneys to work on her case. It is the same body that has returned to the news for the murder of George Floyd. Minnesota police, by the way, responded by refusing to work at Lyns games. Moore, then a Minnesota Lynx player, led a team protest that also featured the Dallas police crest as a sign of support. One of the civilians, Philando Castile, was shot in Minnesota after a traffic violation. Her interest in the Irons case was out of the limelight until last year she spoke of her withdrawal in the 'New York Times', but she had previously shown signs of her commitment.ĭuring the summer of 2016, in a space of three days in July, the police murdered two black men and a black sniper killed five officers during a protest against police brutality in Dallas. The case pushed Maya Moore to fight racism that still lingers in the United States police and judicial system. That same summer, before starting what would be one of the best careers in college basketball, she decided to visit Irons. Moore learned about the case in 2007 through family members who were looking for a defense strategy.
In fact, they say that it is this same conviction that gave her the strength to park her career at the top and fight for a man she believed to be innocent. All for an alleged confession in an interrogation which the police submitted without a lawyer, without a legal guardian, and of which there was no video or audio recording.
Irons was prosecuted as an adult for having a record and, although there was no evidence against him - no fingerprints, no DNA - he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Irons admitted that he had been in the neighborhood that day - he was selling marijuana over there - and yes, he was carrying a gun, but not the caliber the thief had used. The man survived and pointed at the trial to Jonathan Irons, a 16-year-old black boy whom neighbors had seen in the area. At that moment, the thief came out of the closet and shot him twice. The man took the pistol from under the bed and went to pick up the phone to call the police. The previous month they had raided her house and the thieves had taken the cash that she kept in the closet. It all happened in January 1997 in Missouri, Maya Moore's home region. Moore, to fight for the freedom of an innocent man. When Michael Jordan first retired in 1993 she did so to breathe after her father's murder and a growing problem with the game. She was still at the top when she slowed down and decided to drop everything.
At the age of 29 she had already won two Olympic golds, two World Cups, four WNBA titles, a Euroleague.
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