Percy Phillips

The 1993 shooting of gas station clerk Brenda Whitfield has been a travesty of justice for her family, but, finally, after nearly 30 years, the murder trial of Percy Phillips, charged in 2009, began on Wednesday.

Percy Phillips was charged with the murder in 2009, immediately after Edwin Chandler was exonerated. The case has been pending ever since. 

The case was immediately botched by police when the witness' statement was lost, a detective recorded over surveillance video of the shooting with a David Letterman episode and the wrong man was arrested.