His persistence — and the discovery of evidence hidden by police and prosecutors led to the disbarment of Harford County State’s Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly, who prosecuted him.
Cassilly failed to disclose a 1999 letter from the FBI, which informed him that forensic agent Michael Malone had given false testimony linking Huffington to hair found at the crime scene. This letter remained buried until 2011, when a Washington Post reporter discovered it and alerted Huffington’s attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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DNA testing in 2013 confirmed Huffington was not the source of the hair evidence, prompting the courts to vacate his conviction. Rather than face a third trial, he reluctantly entered an Alford plea in 2017 — a legal move acknowledging sufficient evidence for conviction without admitting guilt.
“It was easily the hardest decision of my life,” Huffington told The Washington Post. “I didn’t want to do that.”
