USA Florida. The Florida Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Pablo Ibar

The Florida Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Pablo Ibar, who has been imprisoned for almost 22 years, 15 of them on death row. The 4-3 decision means Ibar will get a new trial on charges he took part in the 1994 murders of Casimir "Butch Casey" Sucharski, 48, and models Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers, both 25. Lawyers for Ibar, 44, the son of Basque immigrants who holds dual Spanish-US citizenship, had fought for a new trial during a hearing before the state Supreme Court on April 8, 2014, arguing that mistakes were made by his defense attorney during his first trial in 2000. One of the high court's key findings in ordering a new trial was that Ibar's DNA was not found on the t-shirt recovered from the murder scene that the killer used to partially cover his face. The defense team also emphasized in their appeal the lack of reliability of a blurred, grainy and soundless video recorded by security cameras at Sucharski's home and the testimony of a facial recognition expert that they said was unreliable. The black-and-white video shows 2 individuals with their faces covered looking for objects of value in the home. At the end of the tape, 1 of the men uncovers his face and, despite the poor quality of the image, the prosecution said at trial that the person was Ibar. The man convicted in 2000 along with Ibar, Seth Penalver, received a new trial in 2012 and was acquitted on all charges (see Dec. 21, 2012).