Defense: Convicted killer was victim of 'Machiavellian plot'
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February 16, 2020
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge has set a March hearing for presentation of new evidence in the case of a man in prison for murder who says he was framed.
Attorneys for the Project for Innocence and Post Conviction Remedies at the University of Kansas and the Midwest Innocence Project have taken on the case of 62-year-old Olin "Pete" Coones, who is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in the 2008 death of his late father's caregiver, Kathleen Schroll.
The Kansas City Star reports that Coones' defense said Schroll actually killed herself and her husband, Carl Schroll, in a "M...
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