Tarrant County DA's office admits it withheld evidence in 1985 bombing case

04:24 PM CDT on Thursday, October 2, 2008
By DOUG J. SWANSON / The Dallas Morning News

The Tarrant County district attorney’s office admitted Thursday that it withheld favorable evidence in the case of Michael Roy Toney, who was convicted of killing three people with a bomb on Thanksgiving Day in 1985.

Lawyers on both sides said they now expect Mr. Toney to be granted a new trial. He has been on death row since 1999.

“I want a new trial so that the truth can be exposed,” Mr. Toney said in an e-mailed statement distributed by supporters. “I need for my children, grandchildren and remaining family to know that I have been wronged and that I am innocent.”

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