Sunday, 22. August 2004
Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 22, 2004 at 8:50:00 AM CEST
Wrongfully convicted man free after 40 years behind bars
A 76-year-old man who spent nearly every day of the last four decades in prison walked free after a judge found that deputies extracted his confession to a 1962 robbery by crushing his fingers between cell bars.
After walking out of the Angelina County jail Tuesday with his wife, Robert Carroll Coney said he was not bitter.
"I'm going to try to pick up the pieces," Coney said. "If I was angry, what could I do about it?"
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