BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, Ind. — Joe Villanueva is the former Johnson County Prosecutor, but he’s never seen a rebuke like the one Bartholomew County Circuit Judge Kelly Benjamin wrote last week vacating the 1999 murder conviction of Jason Hubbell for the killing two years earlier of Sharon Myers.

”Judge Benjamin went through and listed all the ways in which the defense was denied exculpatory evidence in the course of the investigation of the case leading up to trial and then even after the trial occurred that things were still not given to them,” said Villanueva after reading the judge’s opinion.

In an 83-page ruling, under consideration since a hearing for Petition for Post Conviction Relief last February, Judge Benjamin found that Columbus police repeatedly ignored leads that indicated Mich

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