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The Michael Toney Case

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"Death row inmate may get new trial," is the AP report via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.Prosecutors and defense attorneys have filed documents asking for a new trial for death row inmate Michael Toney, saying the state's lead prosecutor improperly withheld evidence in his 1999 trial. Toney was sentenced to death in the killings of three people in the bombing of a mobile home near Lake Worth in 1985. In court documents filed Thursday, the two sides said Toney's trial attorneys weren't given at least 14 pieces of evidence that could have discredited state witnesses or pointed to other suspects. "I want a new trial so that the truth can be exposed and so that I can be exonerated," Toney said in an e-mail statement, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its online edition...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).