Richard Jones was released in 2017 after 17 years in prison. A man who spent 17 years in prison for crimes committed by a lookalike has been awarded a $1.1 million settlement by the state of ...

Richard Jones, 42, was convicted on aggravated robbery charges and sent to prison in 1999, the Kansas City Star reports. Behind bars, it came to Jones’ attention that he and another man, Ricky Amos, ...

Richard Jones, 41, was released on June 8. — -- A man who spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he has always said he didn't commit is now free after a case of mistaken identity. The ...

A innocent Kansas man freed from prison last year after wrongly serving 17 years in prison for a robbery committed by his doppelgänger is suing the state for compensation.Richard Jones filed a ...

Richard Jones and the state reached the settlement in a lawsuit that was resolved Tuesday under a new mistaken-conviction law, officials said. A Kansas man has been awarded $1.1 million after ...

Eyewitnesses said Jones committed the robbery in 1999 in Roeland Park, Kansas. But the witnesses recanted their identification and evidence pointed to a man who looks like Jones.