VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Despite his past lies, former Navy SEAL trainee Billy Joe Brown has no reason to lie now about being the only killer of a Georgia college student, a lawyer trying to exonerate Brown’s fellow trainee said Thursday.
Dustin Turner and Brown were sentenced to decades in prison for murder, but Brown since has said he alone was responsible. “Why in the world would (Brown) go on the stand and admit to killing a helpless victim if it weren’t true?” said David Hargett, Turner’s lawyer.
Turner and Brown — who were training to be elite Navy commandos at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base — were convicted in separate jury trials of killing Jennifer Evans, an Emory University student from Tucker, Ga., who disappeared from Virginia Beach in 1995.
