Court rules Floyd Galloway’s past crime is inadmissible in Danielle Stislicki murder case
DETROIT – There have been new developments in the case against Floyd Galloway, the man charged in the murder of Danielle Stislicki.
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On Friday, a court of appeals ruled that part of Galloway’s past cannot be introduced in as evidence. Galloway’s admission to sexually attacking a jogger has been ruled as non-admissible, as he faces the charge of murder in a separate case.
Galloway is currently in prison. He pled guilty to attacking a female jogger in Hines Park in Livonia and was he was sentenced to prison for 16 to 35 years. At that time, he was considered a person of interest in Stislicki’s disappearance.
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