Top Story
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.
From
To
Top Story
Percy Phillips was charged with the murder in 2009, immediately after Edwin Chandler was exonerated. The case has been pending ever since.
Top Story
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.
Top Story
A murder case that has seen a man wrongfully convicted of the crime could go to trial this week, nearly 30 years after the crime occurred.
Top Story
Despite a request from prosecutors to put him back in jail with a bond, Percy Phillips left the courtroom a free man until his trial, now set for April 2022.
Top Story
Twelve years after Percy Phillips was charged with murder, the case has yet to go to trial. And on July 22, he was released from prison after serving out a 20-year sentence in an unrelated assault conviction.
Top Story
The plea deal would have put Handy on probation and did not include any time in prison.
Top Story
Earlier this year, Mark Handy accepted a plea deal to first-degree perjury in connection with the 1995 murder case against Edwin Chandler. That plea deal still has to be approved by a judge.