Confession allowed in Innocence Project case

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A Baltimore City judge Tuesday refused to throw out a two-decade-old confession in a murder case in which the state?s Innocence Project alleges the wrong men were convicted.

The ruling by Circuit Judge John Themelis saves the strongest part of prosecutors? case against James Owens, 48, who was given a new trial after he was convicted of murdering a young woman two decades ago.

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