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A Florida man who was sentenced to four decades behind bars when he was 14 years old is getting a new chance at freedom after a recent decision<\/a> from the Second District Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

Defendant was charged with first degree murder, stemming from an alleged 2010 robbery. One man was shot and three others were robbed during the incident. Witnesses told police officers the perpetrator\u2014who made off with only a few dollars\u2014was wearing a dark bandanna, possibly black, and carrying a black bag. Defendant went to a local police station two days later and confessed to the shooting. He said, however, that he didn\u2019t rob the men and was simply acting in self-defense. Police officers later found a black bag with gun residue in it in Defendant\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

Defendant changed his story before trial. He said he was taking the blame for an older friend who committed the robbery and shot the man. The friend talked Defendant into making the false confession and even walked him to the police station, according to Defendant. But a neighborhood man testified at trial that he saw and briefly spoke with a person wearing a red bandana and carrying a black bag shortly after the shooting and near the place where the crime happened. The man wasn\u2019t able to identify the person, but he said he was certain that it wasn\u2019t the friend that Defendant said committed the crime. The man said he knew the friend, and was sure that he would have recognized the friend\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n

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A Florida man who was sentenced to four decades behind bars when he was 14 years old is getting a new chance at freedom after a recent decision from the Second District Court of Appeal. Defendant was charged with first degree murder, stemming from an alleged 2010 robbery. One man was shot and three others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murder"],"yoast_head":"\nMurder Case: Scraps Murder Conviction Who Fall Guy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dealing with violent crime charges? See how this ruling on scraps murder conviction year your defense in Clearwater. 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