An appeals court has overturned the 1998 conviction
of a New York man in a fatal Pennsylvania shooting, saying a witness lied, and prosecutors knew it, resulting in an unfair trial, reported The Associated Press.
Erie County, Pennsylvania prosecutors must now
decide whether to retry 48-year-old Vance Haskell in the 1994 slaying of
Darrell Cooley at Jethroe's Steakhouse in Erie or let Haskell go free from the
life sentence he's serving.
Haskell was convicted of first-degree murder after
the woman claimed she saw the Rochester, New York man shoot at Cooley 11 times
with an Uzi-like machine gun.
Haskell's attorney argued before the 3rd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in March that she lied by telling a jury she got nothing
in return for her testimony. They contend Erie County prosecutors helped her
get probation for an unrelated retail theft conviction in a neighboring county.
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