Man Jailed for 17 Years Gets $1 Million After Lookalike Photo Overturns Conviction

Man Jailed for 17 Years Gets $1 Million After Lookalike Photo Overturns Conviction
Richard Anthony Jones (pictured right) and the lookalike image that overturned his conviction (left). Kansas City Police Department
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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Kansas state will hand $1.1 million to a wrongly-convicted man who spent 17 years in prison for a robbery he says was committed by a doppelganger.

The settlement on Dec. 18 is the first to be given under a new law in Kansas.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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