RALEIGH, N.C. – A judge wants to free a man who was found guilty of killing Michael Jordan’s father.
Daniel Green is wanted to be freed by a judge in North Carolina. Green is accused of killing James Jordan, who was the father of basketball star Michael Jordan. The judge who oversaw the murder trial in 1996 spoke to the state’s parole board on Tuesday and brought up an important piece of evidence that he thinks was left out of the trial.
During the first trial, prosecutors said that Green killed James Jordan by shooting him while he was sleeping in his Lexus on a North Carolina highway in July 1993. They said it was an attempted robbery that went badly. After less than two weeks, Jordan’s body was found in a South Carolina swamp.
The judge said that a forensic blood analyst didn’t tell them that tests on something that looked like blood that was found in the car came back negative or unclear for blood.
He reportedly said, “That evidence could have changed the outcome of the trial, and its omission has haunted me ever since.”
Green is currently in prison for life for killing Jordan. He has always said that he is not guilty of murdering the woman, but he has admitted that he helped get rid of the body. It will likely take at least a month for the parole board to decide if Green should be given parole.