A judge has thrown out the murder conviction of a Kansas man who spent more than 12 years in prison for a shooting he says that was actually a murder-suicide for which he was framed.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree told the court he would not seek to retry Olin “Pete” Coones after the judge found he received an unfair trial in the 2008 shooting deaths of Kathleen and Carl Schroll in Kansas City, Kansas. Dupree credited his office’s conviction integrity unit for uncovering exculpatory evidence that prosecutors had not disclosed to Coones or his defense attorney.