Richard
Barge
"He was home with us that night. Everyone who knew the truth said so — the jury just never heard it."
The evidence, in plain terms
Three witnesses placed Richard at Vanessa Brown's apartment during the murder. Consistent, credible, no reason to lie.
A gunshot wound and spinal damage weeks earlier left him unable to flee — as the shooter did. The records were sidelined.
The murder weapon surfaced in another crime while Richard was already in jail, tied to someone with no link to him.
The State's only eyewitness now says his identification was coerced and he never saw the shooter's face.
New evidence implicates other men, with a retaliation motive the jury was never allowed to consider.
Two jailhouse informants received undisclosed benefits; both have since walked back their testimony.
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