ST. LOUIS—A judge overturned a Missouri man’s murder conviction in a case in which investigators failed to reveal that a witness was in a romantic relationship with the lead detective.
Judge Timothy Boyer on Friday overturned Lamont Cambell’s conviction in the death of Lenny Gregory III, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Gregory, the son of a retired St. Louis police officer, was found shot in an SUV in south St. Louis in July 2011.
Cambell was 17 when the shooting happened. A jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict after a 2013 trial. Prosecutors tried him again in 2016 and this time won a conviction. Cambell was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole….