"It cost me 20 years, but they said they corrected it now. So that's all that matters. So I'm good with that," Kenneth Windley, 61, said as he left a Brooklyn courthouse, at liberty for the first time since 2007."
"This case is really a cautionary tale of how things can seem one way but, without careful analysis, not be what it purports to be," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. "Had we known what the evidence was, this case should have never happened.""
"Windley was arrested in 2005, after buying a stove for his mother with a money order that turned out to be stolen. It had been snatched from Gerald Ross, 70, by two thieves who followed him home from a trip to a bank and a post office."
Kenneth Windley, 61, was released from prison after a judge threw out his conviction for a roughly $550 robbery he committed nearly two decades ago. Prosecutors and his lawyers jointly requested the dismissal after new evidence emerged, including confessions from two other men convicted of similar robberies, supporting Windley's longstanding claim of innocence. Windley was arrested in 2005 after purchasing a stove with a stolen money order, which led authorities to him through a paper trail. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez acknowledged the case as a cautionary tale, stating the conviction should never have occurred had the evidence been properly analyzed. Windley expressed acceptance of his exoneration despite the lost years.
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