After more than 25 years behind bars, Calvin Bright chose release under time served as opposed to seeking a new trial
Calvin Bright had spent more than two decades imprisoned for a double murder he maintains he did not commit when new evidence surfaced in the case. He learned authorities had withheld a tip that another man was the killer.He could continue his fight for a new trial in the hope he might someday be acquitted. Or, if he agreed he would not sue the District for false arrest, he could be released immediately but remain a convicted murderer.
During the trial in 1995, two witnesses testified they saw Bright shoot the friends. Bright’s public defender argued Bright was the victim of mistaken identity. Still, he was found guilty of two counts of first- degree murder while armed.As he served a sentence of 65 years to life in prison, Bright said he focused on trying to clear his name. While working a $70-a-month job in prison libraries, stocking bookshelves and making photocopies for inmates, he also studied law books.
That note, however, was never mentioned to Bright’s attorneys. “That was definitely the jackpot,” Benowitz recalled. About three weeks after the shootings, detectives picked Bright up and took him to the station. “They kept asking me where I was that night. It was a month later, I couldn’t remember where I was,” he said. He was arrested and charged in the homicides.In an interview, Dwan Peay, 54, said his sister had attended a cookout earlier that evening near her old neighborhood. After the shooting, he recalled, residents in that area began calling his family’s home.
According to court records, two other witnesses told authorities it was after 4 a.m. on July 24 near Central Place and Gallaudet Street NE when, under the streetlights, they saw the shooter grab Tammy Peay and put her in a bear hug. One witness said she heard Tammy Peay say “Get off me” before the shooter fired once at her head.Both witnesses said they watched Ramsey, who was wearing a cast on his leg, try to run. But he fell.
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