Prof. Perry Moriearty Quoted in New York Times about Her Client’s Application to the Minnesota Board of Pardons

Professor Perry Moriearty was quoted in the New York Times about her client, Maureen Onyelobi, who applied for a pardon this summer from the Minnesota Board of Pardons. Ms. Onyelobi was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for her role in the murder of Anthony Fairbanks. The Times reported that “Moriearty argued, Ms. Onyelobi’s life sentence was excessive. The gunman, who had sworn in a signed affidavit that she had no foreknowledge of the murder, had taken a plea bargain for a lighter sentence with the promise of release. Ms. Onyelobi, meanwhile, received a sentence of mandatory death in prison after exercising her right to a trial.”