Posted on 08/12/2015 5:36:12 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
On a summer's day in 1987, Minneapolis police surrounded a woman's home in the northeast corner of the city and heard their suspect's voice inside. "Tell them I left," said Robert Darren Olson. The officers forced their way in. An Amoco gas station attendant had been shot dead on University Avenue the day before, and one of the suspects, the money and the murder weapon were already in custody.
Police had been tipped off that their second suspect, the getaway driver, spent his nights at the duplex. They found Olson hiding in the closet. He was later convicted of aggravated robbery and aiding and abetting a second-degree murder.
But police had no warrant, and even self-incriminating statements that Olson made after his arrest would eventually be deemed inadmissible as evidence. Olson's legal appeals reached the nation's highest court, turning his case into an unlikely bulwark for constitutional rights to privacy.
In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Olson in the matter, and his conviction was overturned. It wasn't the last time that Olson would make headlines, or that his name would be associated with tragedy.
Olson, 47, was stabbed to death last week in a White Bear Lake home after a fight with a teenager.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
It sounds like justice was finally served, just not by the State.
Wonder if it was a Dreamer, just doing what the State wouldn’t do?
Yeah, I know, it was a different dark skin executioner.
Not quite
Joseph Ecker, who pleaded guilty to murder in the 1987 shooting death of the Minneapolis gas station attendant, is less than three years away from release.
Karma is sometimes faster than Justice.
One down, one to go.
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