A man convicted of murder in Rochester, New York, has had his conviction overturned due to a legal error committed prior to his trial.
Terrence Lewis was convicted in 2018 of the second-degree murder of 29-year-old Johnny Washington, whom Lewis killed in a drive-by shooting in 2015, the Democrat & Chronicle reported. Prior to the trial, however, moving Lewis between correctional facilities violated a state law that required his indictment be thrown out.
Lewis was already in a Pennsylvania federal prison in 2017 for a federal drug conviction when he was indicted for Washington’s murder, the Chronicle reported. In January 2018, he was transported to the Monroe County Jail in New York and arraigned in Monroe County Court. Before the trial, however, Lewis was returned to the federal prison in Pennsylvania, where he stayed for two months before once again being sent to the Monroe County…
