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Tamira Musier holds up a photo of a visit with her brother in prison. Read more Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer
by Ellie Rushing Published Aug. 22, 2025, 2:37 p.m. ET
A judge on Friday overturned the murder conviction of a North Philadelphia man after prosecutors unearthed jail calls that suggest that a key witness was paid to lie and frame him 17 years ago.
Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer Schultz said Tyree Musier, 39, should be granted a new trial, and that his conviction and life sentence should be vacated because prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by failing to turn over key evidence to his lawyers as required by law.
Musier has been behind bars for nearly two decades after he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of N
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