Convicted Murderer Ruled Innocent by Texas Judge

[The Straight Story]

Convicted Murder Ruled Innocent by Texas Judge

DALLAS (CN) - A Dallas man who spent 14 years of prison for a gas station murder was declared innocent by a Texas judge based on two police reports concealed from the defense.
Richard Miles, 36, was convicted in the 1994 murder of Deandre Shay Williams and attempted murder of Robert Ray Johnson Jr. at a Texaco gas station. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Miles has been free since October 2009 when Freedom of Information Act requests revealed two previously undisclosed police reports containing exculpatory material.

One documented an anonymous tip to police three months before Miles' trial that claimed to know who the actual killer was. The other documented a threatening altercation the victims had in the same week as the shooting with someone who could have been investigated as a suspect.

In January 2010, an eye witness recanted his identification of Miles as the shooter, explaining that the prosecutor had coached him.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/23/44124.htm

[mia]

1. Good!

I hope that Miles gets the justice he deserves.

[saras]

3. The justice he deserves is to see the prosecutor spend the rest of THEIR life in jail. Good luck.

[Logical]

2. Jurys put way too much faith in the police. Police lie and so do prosecutors.

[Archae]

4. Even money...

The guy was black and the prosecutor was white.

[Zalatix]

5. This is why I oppose the death penalty... n/t

[Selatius]

6. 14 years of his life was destroyed by an overzealous prosecutor just looking to put anybody in jail.

I hope the prosecutor is ruined for what he did to an innocent man, and I hope Miles gets the money owed to him by the state of Texas for every year he sat in prison.