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Default Wrongfully convicted man released after 40 years in jail - 08-21-2004, 02:56 PM

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LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- 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?"

Coney was convicted of robbing a Safeway supermarket in 1962 and sentenced to life in prison. Many times he escaped from facilities in other states -- including South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi -- only to be recaptured each time. He was returned to the Texas prison system last year.

Coney said his identity had been confused with a man he had carpooled with through Lufkin on the day of the robbery.

State District Judge David Wilson, who dismissed Coney's charges, investigated and found that the sheriff of Angelina County at the time and his deputies used physical force to extract confessions, often crushing prisoners' fingers between jail cell bars.

When Wilson questioned Coney, the prisoner held up two twisted and bent fingers.

"I remember the sheriff well," Coney said.

He said the jailers, in addition to mangling his hand, threatened his life and scared him into confessing. Wilson's findings stated Coney probably did not see a lawyer until he stood before a judge in the case with then-court-appointed lawyer Gilbert Spring. Spring said he didn't remember Coney's case and told Wilson that courts frequently called attorneys in the 1960s to stand with defendants for no money.

"It really contains everybody's worst fears about what went on during certain darker years in this country," said Huntsville attorney David P. O'Neill, who worked on Coney's case.

Coney said he may consider a civil suit at some point but initially wants to focus on his family.

Holding his wife's hand as he left the jail Tuesday for their Dallas home, Coney said little about the ordeal.

"We're going home," Coney said.
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 03:08 PM

dont they in the get reimbursed when they come out after being wrongly convicted - thats one rich mother fucker
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 03:19 PM

wow 40years... thats most of your life. that guy better get something good like no taxes for 40years or something
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 04:13 PM

dude is 76, that sucks...
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 05:12 PM

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dude is 76, that sucks...
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 05:36 PM

And I'm sure there are thousands just like him.
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 06:26 PM

police are jackasses
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 06:27 PM

wow, thats gotta suck. oOo:
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 07:10 PM

poor man,i would sue US for that shit
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 07:11 PM

[quote="St@tIc":b4653]poor man,i would sue US for that shit [/quote:b4653]

GOOD IDEA. Its not the courts that made the mistake, its not the police, its the entire country.

Youre a few phases short of a blastula.
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 07:12 PM

Sue the US?

The US didn't make the decision to put him in jail. A trial in front of his peers decided his fate. They were wrong. I don't think you can sue jury members.
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 07:18 PM

it was a joke annoy:
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 07:18 PM

[quote="St@tIc":11a13]it was a joke annoy:[/quote:11a13]

You suck at humour.
  
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Default 08-21-2004, 07:52 PM

eek: dude with the money hes got his gonna have so mega fuking to do
  
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Default 08-22-2004, 12:01 AM

Ah fuck him. He probably did some other shit to deserve 40 yrs.


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