a man who spent 19 years on death row is getting a new trial.

a man who spent 19 years on death row is getting a new trial.
Florencio Rolan, who's now 50, is accused of fatally shooting Paulino Santiago over 5 dollars in drug money in 1983. In his 1984 trial, his lawyer didn't call any witnesses -- prompting Rolan to cry out that he had 2 witnesses willing to testify to his claim of self-defense.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court granted him a new trial because of his claim of ineffective counsel.
This is Rolan's 2nd overturned murder conviction -- which a prosecutor says is highly unusual and perhaps unprecedented. He was convicted of 3rd-degree murder in the 1975 gang-related death of Edward Muldor, 16. After that conviction was overturned for judicial error, Rolan pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Rolan had been paroled only a short time before killing Santiago.