RSS Feeds  Retrial of 7 men for 1984 murder begins  Monday -
4/23/2012, 6:21pm  ET  Mark Segraves,  WASHINGTON - Seven men
convicted of a brutal murder and rape 27 years ago are back in a
D.C. courtroom today, hoping to have their convictions
overturned after several of the original trial witnesses
recanted their testimony.  A D.C. superior court judge will
decide the fate of the men. Many of the men convicted are still
behind bars. But they say prosecutors forced some witnesses to
lie and coerced confessions from others.  One of those men who
confessed said his confession was beaten out of him by police.
His attorney says Clifton Yarborough, who was 16 at the time,
has an IQ of 69 and was not competent enough to confess to
anything.  Attorneys also point to evidence that two other
suspects may have committed the murder, but that evidence was
never given to defense attorneys as required by law.  Since this
is not a new trial, there is no jury. A judge will hear from all
of the original witnesses and decide wh