A Houston man avoided a life sentence on Thursday after a court determined that he was actually imprisoned during the time of the crime in question.
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The court overturned a prior conviction against LaDondrell Montgomery, 36, who proved that the Dec. 13, 2009 armed robbery incident took place approximately nine hours before authorities released Montgomery from the Harrison County Jail.
“LaDondrell Montgomery insisted throughout the trial that he was not the man in the surveillance footage that was used to convict him and sentence him to life in prison. Montgomery’s life sentence was thrown out after his attorney, Ronald Ray, scoured his rap sheet and realized he had been in jail at the time on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge and hadn’t been released until nine hours after the crime. State District Judge Mark Kent Ellis chided Ray and Assistant Harris County District Attorney Alison Baimbridge for being ‘spectacularly incompetent,’ according to the Houston Chronicle.”
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