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“That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.” - Benjamin Franklin

Case History

Statement of Facts

Zeke's Statement from 1996

Letters by Judge Donald E. Ziegler ( The Trial Judge )

Affidavit of Cyril H. Wecht ( A Pathologist )

Affidavit of Michael M. Baden. M.D.and Barbara C. Wolfe M.D. (Pathologists)

Affidavit of Henry C. Lee ( A Criminalist )

Affidavit of John Balshy ( An Investigator )

Affidavit of F. Peter Dixon ( The Trial Prosecutor )

Commutation Denied

Clarence Miller's Latest Version Of The Murder (now he puts the blade in his own hand)

The Testimony of Cyril H. Wecht October 19, 2000

Present State of the Case

Zeke's Lawyers

"Clarence . . . Clarence Miller did this to me." George Wilhelm's dying declaration to police, February 9, 1976 (T.T. 1528).

". . . Goldblum was not the individual who inflicted the fatal stab wounds on Mr. George Wilhelm." Dr. Cyril Wecht, Coroner of Allegheny County in letter to Board of Pardons, September 1, 1994; Henry Lee, Ph.D., report dated February 25, 1997.

"This is the one case in 21 years [as a judge] which seriously troubles my conscience about the result." The Honorable Donald Ziegler as quoted in Michael Bucsko, Judge Haunted by Dying Man's Last Sentences, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 5, 1995.