Myon DeMarlo Burrell has been incarcerated for nearly the past 17 years for a crime he did not commit nor have any involvement in! He has been serving a life sentence, enslaved to the Department of Corruptions for a crime that he is 100% innocent of. We are trying to raise money to provide him with the support needed to help him gain his freedom.
The Minneapolis investigators and prosecutors, in his case, chose to make an example out of Myon and wrongfully prosecuted him in 2002 for the murder of Tyesha Edwards. The police and prosecutor did a lot of illegal things to close their case that resulted in an innocent 16-year-old child losing his life .
At the time, he was unaware of the severity of his situation and wholeheartedly believed the police had made a mistake and once they realized they had the wrong person, he would be released to be reunited with his family. That would be forever changed! Little did he know, that cool November afternoon would be the last time he would be a free human being. Life as he knew, had come to a screeching halt and he had been forced to become a number, a slave, a statistic!
Unbeknown to him, he was already being framed and his face was plastered all over the news and the front page of all the papers, as being a gang banging monster that needed to serve the rest of his natural life imprisoned. At that time Myon was not in any database as being involved in any gangs. He was never arrested with any gang members. He had no record or history of violence. Myon's background only consisted of the 5th-degree possession of a controlled substance and a curfew violation.
The whole process was questionable from the beginning. He never stood a chance at receiving a fair trial. He was tried by the media before he ever stepped foot in a courtroom. His name was incorrectly spelled in the court system and throughout the media as Myron Burrell when his correct name is MYON. The district attorney, Amy Klobuchar, lied about his age. They never certified him as an adult. Hennepin County Jail has his date of birth as March 31, 1985, when his correct birth year is 1986. They made it seem as though he was 17 years old and charged him as an adult without certifying him. They sent him straight to Hennepin County Adult Detention Center and placed him in solitary confinement where he would spend the next several months.16 years old, alone in a cold dark cell with minimal human contact and only one hour out per day to use the phone and shower. Once convicted, Myon was sent to the Minnesota Department of Corrections - St. Cloud. What a scary thing to have to go through as a teenager.
No on-looking witnesses at the scene of the crime identified him as being one of the men they saw that fatal day. They have no physical evidence linking him to this crime. The car the co-defendants drove to the crime was found and dusted for prints. They said they didn’t find Myon prints in the car, but they never said whose prints were found. The gun was never recovered. There were two coats found in the trunk of the car which was discovered to have belonged to the co-defendants Isaiah Tyson and Hans Williams. One of the coats was identified and described to the police by onlookers as the one Isaiah wore. It has never been mentioned of either coats found being tested for gunshot residual. I say that to say, they incarcerated Myon for being the sole shooter but the Minneapolis police department discovered Isaiah wore the coat they found in the trunk of the car that was send to have been worn by the shooter. The evidence shows that there was only one shooter. Because of the facts above, it is a must that we hire a forensic investigator. Upon researching, we have found there are no forensic investigators for hire within the State of Minnesota so we have to hire an investigator from another state. A portion of the received funds will be intended to provide funding for the forensic investigator.
After his first trial, a member of the jury contacted WCCO news and radio station to say he and a few other jury members were pressured into coming back with a guilty verdict although they did not believe that Myon was guilty. He stated that he believed the Minneapolis Police Department lied about the height of the wall/railing the person was shooting over. He didn’t believe Myon was tall enough to be shooting over the wall/railing. His lawyer put in a motion for a mistrial. However, it was denied.
Amy Klobuchar has used this case as a victory in her Senate campaign and is now using it in her presidential campaign. As the district attorney/head prosecutor of Hennepin County, she had previously been under fire by the community of color in her district for the injustice and racist actions of the Minneapolis Police Department. She relied on grand juries to charge cops — seen today as avoiding accountability — and avoid getting between police and diverse communities during a violent time in Minneapolis. This was widely criticized for its secrecy and for mostly allowing the police version of events to be the narrative. In response to the mounting pressure, she vowed to cause a change in these communities by “giving harsh sentences to juveniles and locking up the gangsters that are killing their kids.”
Needless to say, He had just become a political pawn in her campaign to take the negative attention that she had been receiving for her racial, bias ways and her failure to address the terrible police brutality that was taking place on her watch. She set out to give the heartbroken people of Minneapolis a monster they could direct their frustrations and anger towards.
Amy’s office did not do their due diligence in investigating this crime. They discredited any witnesses for the defense if they had any type of blemish on their record. She took full credit for this case and used it as a victory for her senate campaign. When she took senate office, Mike Freeman took her place as district attorney and picked up where she left off in the railroading process. He appointed a special gang prosecutor that flooded the second trial with several questionable characters (jailhouse informants), with extensive criminal records, claiming Myon confessed to committing this crime while he was housed amongst them in the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center. They paid people and coerced them to make false statements. They gave out deals to people that were locked up in county, state and federal prisons to reduce their sentence. They did charge people with crimes they committed for their coerce testimony.
Freeman has been known to contort forensic evidence to defend rather than prosecute. In another instance, Freeman’s office used lack of any fingerprints to actually argue strongly that the DNA transfer was incidental or indirect. It has been cited previously in the news that Freeman disregarded the testimony of more than 20 black witnesses in a police-involved shooting of a young black man. In the past, he has also been known to rely on the testimony of a single witness who had something to gain if they lied.
Due to the wrongful conviction, Myon has been robbed of being a father to his one and only child. A month before his incarceration he celebrated his son’s first birthday. Can you imagine missing a single day in your child’s life? Not being able to kiss them on their forehead before tucking them into bed at night. Not having the chance to teach them their abc’s or potty train them. Care for them when they are sick or clean up and bandage them up when they hurt themselves. What about showing your child how to look left and right when crossing the street or how to ride a bike. Don’t forget the first days of school teaching them about the do’s and don’t’s, and being their guidance. Can you imagine not having the opportunity to be that shoulder to cry on when they need you the most?
This young man has lost so much during his life behind bars. Within three weeks of being incarcerated, he lost his mother in a fatal car crash after visiting him in the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center. Although he had not been convicted, he was denied the opportunity to say his last goodbyes and pay his respects to his dear mother. Myon has been deprived of so many relationships. He lost both grandmothers and his grandfather and was unable to attend their home going. Those are a few of the most influential people in one's life that he has missed years with and will not be able to get them back.
All the attorneys he has had in the past allowed the politics of this case to override their duties to him. This was a high profile case. We believe there is somebody high up the food chain stopping the truth from coming out. We refuse to continue to allow the legal system to bury an innocent man. Please join us in the fight in seeking justice for Myon Burrell. We are not just saying he's innocent because he's our love one. His whole case is public information if you take the time to look into it, you will see the injustice they have done and continue to do.
He's lost his teenage years and so much more. Let's not allow him to lose another second, day, month or year of his precious life. We are seeking your contributions for the following:
- Attorney fees
- Legal fees
- Forensic investigator
- Private Investigator
- Additional fees that may come up in the fight for Myon’s freedom
We have new evidence to support his innocence that includes witnesses and an alibi for Myon that place him elsewhere when this crime occurred. THEY NEVER TOOK THE TIME OUT TO LOOK INTO ANYONE ELSE AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT although they had a lead to another individual that fit the crime and demographics. When given an additional name and being questioned about additional suspects, Sergeant Rick Zimmerman stated: “This is a search for justice and truth, not about throwing out names to try muddy up something”. There are countless times when Myon’s human and civil rights were ignored and violated. We’re fighting to make sure his case gets the attention to the prosecutorial misconduct that we believe resulted in Myon being wrongfully convicted and committed to the Minnesota Department of Corrections for natural life with the possibility of parole after 46 years. Will you stand with us and support Myon be FULLY exonerated for the heinous crime that he did not commit.
For more information and additional ways that you may assist in the fight for justice for Myon, please click the links below to find his full story and supporting evidence of his innocence.
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I urge you to join us in asking Judge Charles Porter, Senator Amy Klobuchar, District Attorney Mike Freeman, Governor Tim Walz, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to take into account the undeniable facts of Myon’s case, and provide justice for Myon DeMarlo Burrell once and for all.
