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Article: Flippo conviction overturned, Evidence may have been obtained illegally, Supreme Court rules
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 18, 1999
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The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned the murder conviction of
a West Virginia minister accused of killing his wife in 1996,
shortly after taking out a $100,000 insurance policy on her life.
The court, in a unanimous and unsigned decision, threw out the
Rev. James Flippo's conviction because evidence used at his 1997
trial might have been obtained unlawfully by police. His case now
will head back to the West Virginia Supreme Court.
Flippo had been sentenced to life in prison without parole for
the 1996 bludgeoning death of his wife, Cheryl, at a Babcock State
Park cabin in Fayette County.
Prosecutors said Flippo was trying to cash in on the life
insurance policy he had taken out on his ...