🥉 Third Place: Nichole Manna and Casey Frank of the Florida Trib for “‘Cold Blooded’: How a Florida prosecutor fixed a ‘weak’ case using a liar and 3 jailhouse snitches to send a man to Death Row,” reporting that uncovered serious flaws in the case against Kenneth Hartley.
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'Cold-Blooded' • The Florida Trib
A seven-month Tributary investigation of Hartley’s case – which included a review of thousands of pages of court records, handwritten detective and prosecutor notes, police reports and interviews with everyone involved who is alive and willing to talk – revealed a prosecution marred by critical omissions about the linchpin state witness and other questionable decisions and practices.