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Appellate Court Hears Challenge to Post‑Conviction Relief Tied to Twitter Evidence in Jabril Lindsey Case
Summary
At oral argument, defense counsel said Twitter posts the state used to show motive were older and lacked clear links to the victim; state attorneys defended trial counsel’s strategy of attacking authorship and authentication. The court took the appeal under advisement.
Chloe Akers, attorney for Jabril Lindsey, told an appellate panel that the state’s case rested on a set of Twitter posts that were mischaracterized to the jury and that the post‑conviction court properly granted relief after new context emerged.
Akers said there was “no physical evidence linking Jabril Lindsey to this homicide,” and that the prosecution had leaned on 10 Twitter messages to provide motive and shore up weak and contradictory eyewitness testimony. She told the court that the post‑conviction record showed only two of the ten posts were from the same year as the Oct. 4, 2014 homicide and that neither referenced the victim’s screen name, while the other posts dated to 2013.
The argument centered on whether trial counsel Kit Rogers rendered constitutionally deficient performance by failing to present timing, retweet…
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