By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:05 EST, 3 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:26 EST, 3 October 2013 . Committed suicide? Broke motivational speaker Henry Locker is said to have hired Kenneth Minor to help assist in his death as part of a life insurance scam. Minor was convicted of murdering Locker in 2011 but today won a re-trial after it was decided the judge had 'misinterpreted the law' Jeffrey Locker was a Modal Trigger . Motivational speaker. The man convicted of his murder, Kenneth Minor, has won a retrial in an attempt to prove . Kenneth Minor, a known drug abuser, claims he was approached on the street in East Harlem (pictured) by Jeffrey Locker, a debt-ridden motivational speaker who needed help in making his suicide look like a robbery as part of an $18 million life insurance scam.
Kenneth Minor sentence to 20 years prison in 2011 for murdering Jeffrey Locker . Minor has maintained he was hired to help Locker kill himself as part of an insurance scam . Supreme court rule against judge, who is said to have 'confused' the law and the jury . Minor's lawyers prepare to push for manslaughter charge at retrial .