New Jersey attorney general’s office has moved to dismiss charges against Dion Miller for the 2003 killing of his neighbor, Romeo Cavero, 74.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.After his first murder trial ended in a hung jury, Dion Miller was offered a deal from Hudson County Prosecutors: Plead guilty, and they'd let him go free almost immediately.That was nearly 20 years ago. On Thursday, the New Jersey attorney general’s office moved to dismiss charges against Miller for the 2003 killing of his neighbor, Romeo Cavero, 74.
Miller, now 54, of Jersey City, was arrested in January 2003 after Cavero was killed outside a Van Nostrand Avenue senior citizens’ building. Cavero had been struck in the head from behind and robbed of cash, according to the attorney general’s office. He was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where his condition deteriorated and he died four days later.
Platkin’s office said Miller made three false confessions, each containing inconsistencies in the details and descriptions of the events. None of the confessions matched the description of the crime provided by the victim. Miller repeated back information that detectives had already fed him about the crime, and that process “molded Mr. Miller’s statements to fit the facts as the detectives believed them to be,” Platkin’s office said in an announcement of the exoneration.
Miller’s first trial ended in a hung jury. He was convicted of felony murder, robbery and other charges at a second trial in 2007 and sentenced to 30 years in prison without eligibility for parole. “We hope that the lessons learned from this matter, particularly with regard to the causes and frequency of false confessions, will lead to exonerations of other innocent people and help prevent future wrongful convictions from occurring in New Jersey,” she said.
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