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California Western Innocence Project Takes 20-year-old Case Back to Court

November 7, 2006

Original defense attorney, now a judge, has doubts about decades old trial
More than 20 years ago, Timothy Atkins was convicted of murder after he was identified by a frightened woman who witnessed her husband being shot in the chest during an attempted carjacking. Now California Innocence Project attorneys are back in court, claiming new evidence [...]