Georgetown Students Push for Markale Lundy's Clemency | Columbus News

Georgetown students are fighting to free Markale Lundy, a Black man wrongfully sentenced to 22 years for a 2012 Columbus robbery he didn’t commit—despite DNA evidence that proved inconclusive, witness inconsistencies, and a botched investigation that ignored an alternative suspect. Lundy, now serving over a decade behind bars, calls his ordeal a nightmare no innocent person should endure. The student-led Making an Exoneree program has submitted a clemency petition to Ohio’s governor and hired a lawyer to reopen the case, citing cellphone records placing him miles from the crime scene at the time of the attack. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/bafe39edb5310ab8