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Dean McKee’s murder conviction was vacated by a judge.
(Florida Dept. Of Corrections)
A judge last week vacated the decades-old murder conviction of a former neo-Nazi skinhead who has maintained his innocence in the stabbing death of a 41-year-old black man, citing new DNA evidence and witness testimony.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Lisa Campbell wrote in a 17-page order Friday that the new evidence and testimony “would probably produce an acquittal at retrial” for Dean McKee, who was convicted of stabbing Isaiah Walker on Dec. 20, 1987, after his older brother, Scott, fingered him as the killer, according to McKee’s attorneys from the Innocence Project of Florida.
“It is clear to any objective observer that Dean McKee was likely framed by his older brother, who took a sweetheart deal to provide false testimony implicating Dean in this murder,” attorney Seth Miller said in a…
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