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 Wednesdays 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.
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Terrible thought.
It would be pure guessing based on technology available at the time.
But, the military took multiple DNA samples from me twenty years back.
So if any clones exist, they would be from those samples and would be in their late teens at the oldest.
Those little currs.
/ Kidding
“I want to know why DNA wouldnt sort this out?”
I don’t think the DNA tests at that time could differentiate the DNA from what appears to be brothers from different baby mommas.
I think you underestimate c2000 capability.
I’ve been gorging on “Forensic Files” which is from around that time as are many of the stories. Plenty of DNA evidence flying around, and from earlier, too. Basically after ‘90 is when DNA started taking off.
I wonder if they do not bother because “it’s ONLY robbery”, not murder.
“I wonder if they do not bother because its ONLY robbery, not murder.”
All you have to do is look at what’s going on in Waco, TX with the bikers and you know the game is rigged. I have no use for the Hell’s Angels types, but that mess is instructive of how the Just Us System works. Shoot and Shovel.
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