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Man jailed for 17 years until lawyers find look-alike convict with same first nameBy Amanda Woods June 12, 2017 | 11:54am | UpdatedMan jailed for 17 years until lawyers find look-alike convict with same first nameRichard Jones (right) was freed after police found his doppelganger "Ricky." A Missouri man spent nearly 17 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit — until investigators found his doppelganger, according to reports.Richard Anthony Jones was serving a prison sentence for a 1999 robbery that he adamantly denied committing when he heard rumors that another prisoner looked just like him — and even shared his first name, the Kansas City Star reported.Jones never saw his doppelganger — but told his lawyers at the Midwest Innocence Project and the Paul E. Wilson Defender Project, who dug further into the case and determined the rumors were true, the paper reported.Not only did the other man bear an uncanny resemblance to Jones but he also lived closer to the site of the crime. Jones’ doppelganger, known as “Ricky,” lived in Kansas City, Kansas, near the address of the incident, a mugging of a woman in a Walmart parking lot. ...Continued: http://nypost.com/2017/06/12/man-jailed-for-17-years-until-lawyers-find-lookalike-convict-with-same-first-name/
