Nevada Prison Watch: Was this man framed for the murder of someone who was still alive?

2012/01/13

Was this man framed for the murder of someone who was still alive?

From the Blog of Nevada Cure:

Thank you for taking the time to read this. NV-CURE received this letter and one of our members was his cell mate and believes that the story is absolutely true. Anyway, it would sure be worth looking into:

My name is Richard Milbourn. I have been in prison for 26 years serving two death sentences for a crime that never occurred.

I am actually innocent and I always have been. This past summer I was notified by Nicole Harvey, an attorney in Reno, NV that the person I was framed for murdering actually died under a second identity two years ago in 2009.

How can someone die twice?

The prosecutors -- four of them, and the Clark County Public Defender in Las Vegas, Nevada fabricated this guy’s death under the name Michael Rushford (DOB 3-11-57)

They claimed he died on June 2, 1985, and they framed me for his murder and sentenced me to two death sentences and sent this guy on his merry way to continue to traffic tons upon tons of crank (meth) under the identity of Kenneth (Kent) Skagg (DOB 5-12-62)

He died 24 years later in 2009 with not a single member of the jury any wiser.

I possess documentation of the truth that I am and always have been actually innocent as the day I was born. The event for which I was wrongly convicted was fabricated and staged on June 2, 1985.

Will someone please help me and investigate my claims? Everybody wants to cover it up and conceal the event.

Richard Milbourn
#23637
ESP
P.O. Box 1989
Ely, NV 89301

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