Brief Summary Of Michael Amick's Murder Case

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Michael Amick was convicted for killing a 67 year old woman and then setting her house on fire, with the body inside. He was sentenced to life. The crime occurred in 2008, but he was convicted in 2011. Amick was then exonerated in 2016 after serving only 5 years of his life sentence. Complications with the jury resulted in a retrial for Amick. An inmate in the same corrections facility as Amick, said that another inmate admitted to the crime that Amick was convicted of. The other inmate had the same MO, shooting his victims and burning the building down. The inmate's testimony was later not allowed due to the judge's thought that the inmate was going to receive financial gain. At the new trial proof or workers compensation were shown and Amick's

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