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Texas Death Row Inmate May Get New Trial
Prosecutors and defense attorneys are seeking a new trial for a Texas death row inmate because evidence was withheld in the man’s trial in 1999.
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(October 3, 2008)--Prosecutors and defense attorneys filed documents Thursday seeking for a new trial for death row inmate Michael Toney, claiming the state's lead prosecutor improperly withheld evidence in Toney’s 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.
Both the state and defense agree Toney's trial attorneys weren't given at least 14 pieces of evidence that could have discredited state witnesses or pointed to other suspects.
The state denies it knowingly sponsored misleading testimony and denies Toney is innocent.
It said it agreed with the defense that he was entitled to a new trial.
If the judge supports the attorneys' findings, he will send his recommendation to the Court of Criminal Appeals, which could order a new trial.
Defense attorneys don't expect Toney to be tried again but prosecutors say it is too soon to say.
Angela Blount, 15, her father, Joe Blount, 44, and her cousin, Michael Columbus, 18, were killed on Thanksgiving Day, 1985, when a briefcase with a bomb in it blew up on the porch of their mobile home.
Toney was indicted in December 1997 after allegedly telling another inmate in the Parker County Jail that he was paid $5,000 to put the bomb at the mobile home but put it at the wrong trailer.
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No need to be a lawyer to notice there is no evidence against Toney in the trial transcript.I will only ask: what was the use of the Court of criminals appeals in that case? What are they paid for? to pat on Parrish's shoulder? And Parrish is "retired". Really?And no "law of the parties", there, of course.Levy said it does not matter who is responsible! An attempt murder in the court itself, in front of judge Young, "it does not matter" for the chief of the criminal division of the Tarrant District attorney's office! Then, glory, glory, alleluia for Levy, for Parrish and all his accomplices!
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Mybe you should read the facts to a case before you make stupid remarks- what if this was your childs father grandfather brother etc... Michael IS innocent. the only thing he is guilty of is compassion for an old jailhouse snitch that needed medicine to survive. Read the case.
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I dont think he should get another trial. If he infact did put the bomb on the wrong porch that makes the situation even worse...but the fact is that 3 innocent people lost their life because of someone's stupidity. He should get the dealth penalty!
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