Imprisoned in 2000 for an aggravated robbery that he did not commit — a robbery committed by his doppelganger — Richard Anthony Jones was finally released in 2017.
As the year of 2018 winds down, this is surely one of the happiest stories for this man and his family — though nothing can make up for the lost time.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt revealed last week that the parties had agreed on a settlement of $1.1 million.
Though there was an absence of physical evidence, fingerprints, or DNA that tied Jones to the crime all those years ago, he was convicted of trying to steal a purse in a Walmart parking lot in Roeland Park, Kansas, back in 1999.
To make matters worse, Jones had an ironclad alibi.
He had attended a birthday party at that time, and multiple witnesses said so.
Yet he was misidentified by two witnesses to the robbery.- READ MORE