Buffalo Five News Today

Attorneys for two Buffalo Five members are suing the City of Buffalo and Erie County for over $200 million total to finally put an end to a situation which began with a murder in the winter of 1976.

Buffalo Five member Darryl Boyd stands outside of the Erie County Courthouse Members of the Buffalo Five were back in State Supreme Court Tuesday morning to hear oral arguments on the motion to vacate their decades old murder convictions. A point of contention for the attorney’s for Darryl Boyd and Jonathan Walker is missing crime scene photos attorneys say point to a single assailant in the 1976 murder of William Crawford on Fillmore Avenue. Supporters believe the missing photos and eye wit...

According to thechallengernews.com, Back in 1976, John Walker Jr., Darryl Boyd, Darryn Gibson, Floyd Martin and, TyroneWoodruff, were convicted of the robbery and murder of William Crawford an elderly man who was leaving The Golden Nugget Bar and Lounge, on Filmore ave, in Buffalo New York. Although the crime scene photographic evidence supported the fact that there was one lone assailant, and not five. There was never any DNA evidence recovered or presented to the courts at the time of the tr...