Court hears appeal related to Memphis area murder
Daughter continues to push for DNA testing to exonerate her father
April Alley (front), daughter of Sedley Alley, is hugged by a member of her legal team in a Memphis courtroom Oct. 14, 2019. Alley hopes to learn whether DNA evidence would prove her father was innocent of a crime for which he was executed. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
April Alley seeks DNA testing to exonerate her father, Sedley Alley, who was executed in 2006 after being convicted of the 1985 murder of Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins in Millington. Sedley Alley confessed to the crime, but later said the confession was coerced.
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