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A Snitch, a Brady Violation, and Freedom - The Michael Toney Case

By Steve Hall

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has posted Alex Branch's report, "Defendant freed, nine months after conviction and death sentence were overturned."Michael Toney was released from the Tarrant County Jail on Wednesday night, nine months after his conviction and death sentence for the 1985 bombing deaths of three people in a Lake Worth trailer were overturned.District Attorney Joe Shannon said he learned Wednesday that the Texas attorney general filed a motion to dismiss the case against Toney without prejudice. That means prosecutors could still decide to retry the case after further investigation, he said.The attorney general took over the case after the Tarrant County district attorney?s office recused itself in January because evidence favorable to Toney?s defense was withheld during his 1999 trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).