Posted on 06/12/2017 12:40:08 PM PDT by Theoria
In prison for a crime he adamantly denied committing, Richard Anthony Jones repeatedly heard from others that there was another prisoner who looked just like him.
Not only were they doppelgangers, but Jones was told that he and the other man shared the same first name.
Jones never ran across the man, but the lawyers he passed the information on to began digging into his case and came to the conclusion that Jones was indeed an innocent man.
On Wednesday, they made their case to a Johnson County judge, and on Thursday Jones walked free after serving nearly 17 years in prison for a 1999 robbery in Roeland Park.
Not only did he bear an uncanny resemblance to the other man with the same first name, but his lawyers uncovered the fact that the other man lived near the area of where the crime occurred, while Jones lived across the state line in Kansas City.
At Wednesday’s hearing in Johnson County District Court, witnesses, including the robbery victim, testified that looking at pictures of the two men together, they could no longer say if Jones was the perpetrator.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Most people don’t know it, but eyewitness identification is among the most unreliable forms of evidence.
Someday my clones will come searching for the original.
I will be ready for their onslaught.
I want to know why DNA wouldn’t sort this out?
Geese.
Speaking of that, the FBI does not record any interviews. The agent essentially eye witnesses the interview, and writes down his notes afterwards
....just like Comey did.
It’s an FBI standard
What are you now going to do with your life but more importantly, who will be willing to hire you based on your history even tho it was false imprisonment?
17 years of lack of proper job training and experience, all he'll likely qualify for is flipping burgers or basic minimum wage jobs......
Don't know how old he is now, but if he was me, I would have one hell of a lot of hatred built up within me towards the judicial system. 17 years unfairly taken from me, the only thing I would probably think of is revenge.........
If I ever find my doppelganger I’m going to steal their liver.
In some situations like this, a state legislature will vote a private restitution bill.
It would take a saint to come out of this with equanimity.
Hell is a innocent man in prison.
I worked for years in a big city ER.One evening we got a young woman in who stated she had been raped.She was put in a treatment room while the surgeon and the nurse prepared to examine her.At that time the ER was pretty quiet (which can happen) when all of a sudden you heard a loud crashing sound followed by a lot of yelling.
It was two city cops dragging a guy into the ER who,while being dragged,kept shouting "I didn't do nothing".
The cops dragged him in front of the woman's treatment room and opened the curtain and immediately she started screaming "he's the one,he's the one".
The cops then turned around and started dragging him out the same door through which they entered.
The whole thing took no more than 90 seconds.I'll never forget it.
I think it's very unrealistic...almost foolish...to assume that *everyone* sitting in prison is guilty as charged.My attitude is that when it comes to someone imprisoned for something that they did not,in fact,do I hope that there was some other crime they *did* commit that they were never tried for.
An example in point....OJ.Even if he's not guilty of the charges in Nevada he's still getting what he deserved for having decapitated his ex wife.
And if he’d been murdered in prison, he’d just go down in history as another criminal.
Count of Monte Cristo: Only God can give me justice.
Someday my clones will come searching for the original.
I will be ready for their onslaught.c
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you know that you’re not the clone?
Color me sceptical, he may be innocent, maybe not but we never get the full story in these types of articles.
“I want to know why DNA wouldn’t sort this out?
Because 17 years ago the process of identification via DNA didn’t exist. Couple that with a legal system that doesn’t like admitting to “mistakes,” and you can see why this happened. Now, a lot of old cases where physical evidence that has DNA on it, are being reopened and a number of innocent people are getting out of jail.
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