The Supreme Court agreed on Dec. 13 to review the case of Adam Samia, who was convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme as a result of another person’s legally questionable confession.
The decision came by way of an unsigned order. The justices did not explain why they acted and no justices dissented from the ruling.
Samia had been living in North Carolina working as a security guard on the family farm, according to the petition he filed with the Supreme Court. In 2011 he traveled to the Philippines, prepared to perform security work for Echelon Associates.
Echelon turned out to be a front company for Paul LeRoux, a South African citizen who headed a criminal empire operating on four continents. LeRoux, who cooperated with authorities after his arrest, ordered the murder of Catherine Lee, a Filipina real estate agent who LeRoux believed stole money from him in an earlier transaction, the document stated….