26, 1993, than the circumstantial case that sent Ellis to prison after two mistrials and a third retrial. What she, and the rest of us, now know is that there are alternative theories to the execution-style shooting of Mulligan in the early morning of Sept. “Having learned of Sean's conviction and his protestations of innocence, I could never go back to not knowing.” “One essential truth moved me to action,” she writes on the website she created to track developments in his case. Last year, Scapicchio won Drumgold a $5 million civil settlement from the city for the 14 years he spent wrongfully imprisoned.Įllis, now 40, has spent more than half his life behind bars for Mulligan’s death but it is Elaine Murphy’s memory of the 8-year-old METCO student who played with her son in their Needham backyard that has inspired her to work for his release for the last two decades. That evidence, implicating dirty cops in the framing of Ellis, would never have come to light without Rosemary Scapicchio, the relentless defense lawyer who in 2003 convinced another judge to vacate the conviction of Shawn Drumgold for the murder of Darlene Tiffany Moore, a 12-year-old girl caught in crossfire as she sat on a mailbox in Roxbury on a hot August night in 1989. Sometimes, the criminal justice system finally gets it right. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol Ball granted Ellis’ motion for bail as well for a new trial in the slaying of Detective John Mulligan after a blistering decision excoriating the prosecution for withholding evidence of police misconduct from the defense for decades.
Ellis walks free on bail for the murder of a corrupt Boston police detective that he has insisted through three trials and 21 years in prison he did not commit, he will have three righteous women to thank.
Sometimes, it takes a team of women to get it done.
(Jesse Costa/WBUR) This article is more than 8 years old. In this photo, Ellis enters a Suffolk Superior Court courtroom for his bail hearing Tuesday, May 11, 2015. Eileen McNamara: Two decades after a corrupt system railroaded him into a prison cell, Sean Ellis will finally get the opportunity to have a fair trial.
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