Amanda Lewis Files Motion for Post-Conviction Relief

Over the past few years, I’ve been working the Amanda Lewis case for the Undisclosed Podcast. The full 11 episode series is available here. In 2008, Amanda was convicted of murder in connection with the 2007 drowning death of her seven year-old daughter, Adrianna Hutto, in Esto, Florida.

Our investigation into the case has uncovered four Constitutional errors with Amanda’s convictions as well as significant evidence of her actual innocence. As detailed in our Undisclosed Amanda Lewis Press Release, there are four grounds for appeal we identified: (1) the judge removed one of Amanda’s six presiding jurors despite deeming him competent to serve; (2) the judge removed this juror outside Amanda’s presence and without her approval; (3) a second juror failed to disclose that she overheard the lead police officer on Amanda’s case at a grocery store falsely claiming that Amanda never should have had children because she was a drug addict; and (4) this second juror was only 17 years-old.

Meanwhile, the evidence of Amanda’s actual innocence is overwhelming, with all of it pointing toward Adrianna falling into the family’s above-ground pool from a red wagon she had pulled up to it.

All of this has prompted Amanda’s pro bono attorney Natlie Figgers filing a Motion for Post-Conviction Relief on Friday. Here is her Motion for Post-Conviction Relief.