San Francisco, Tuesday, 07th July, 2009¬— A federal appeals court inverted the conviction of the man found guilty for the murder of Tracey Biletnikoff, and ordered a new trail. Tracey Biletnikoff was the daughter of Ex-NFL player and Oakland Raiders hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff.
Mohammed Haroon Ali and Tracey Biletnikoff met in 1997 at a San Mateo drug and alcohol treatment program known as “project 90” in South San Francisco, both were there for their treatment. Two years into their relationship when Biletnikoff found out that Mohammad Haroon Ali had started drugs use once again, she tried to get him back to the rehabilitation program. Mohammad Haroon Ali was working at the Project 90 office at the time. Mohammad Haroon Ali strangled Tracey Biletnikoff and dumped her body near Canada College situated in Redwood City, Ali was arrested the next day in San Diego as he drove her car across the border from Mexico, and escaped to Mexico in her car. Ali was detained by San Diego Police next day from the border of México, where he had fled.
Mohammad Haroon Ali was sentenced to 55 years in jail in 2001 for the murder of 20-years-old Tracey Biletnikoff, and another 9 years in a previous kidnapping conviction in which his verdict had been suspended.
Now the 9th U.S Circuit Court of appeals, who inverted the conviction of Ali a 33-year-old from Fuji by saying that prosecutors have violated his legal rights and also disregarded the Policies set by United States Supreme Court in 1986 by discharging at-least one and probably two black jurors from the group of jury for ethnic reasons.
The federal court also said that Muhammad Haroon Ali must be given a new prosecution or set free “within a rational span of time”.
I must tell you that during the trail Ali’s lawyer said that he killed Tracey Biletnikoff, while he was under the influence of aggressive desire for drugs, whereas Mohammad Haroon Ali himself never testified at the trail but he did ask for forgiveness from Tracey’s family at his verdict.
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