For the record, that’s not photos taken at different times in life.  At first glance, maybe.  In focus, those are clearly two separate men.  But mistaken identity may have caused one of them to spend 17 years in prison.

Richard Anthony Jones always maintained that he was innocent of robbing a Wal-Mart.  After being sentenced on solely eyewitness testimony, he later heard that he looked just like someone else in the prison system.  In fact, they shared the same first name….Ricky.   And the other man lived near where the crime occured (Jones, meanwhile, lived across the state line.)

Based on the new information, a judge freed the man this week.  You can read the entire saga here.  — [eric]