Prosecutors are investigating whether a top Broward...

Prosecutors are investigating whether a top Broward County sheriff's detective made up evidence against Frank Lee Smith, a Fort Lauderdale man who spent 14 years on Florida's death row for a murder he did not commit. Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Bruce H. Colton, state attorney for Martin, St. Lucie, Okeechobee and Indian River counties, to look into allegations that Richard Scheff knowingly lied to win a conviction against Smith and then fabricated evidence to help preserve his death sentence. Smith, 52, died of cancer in January 2000, 10 1/2 months before DNA testing cleared him of the 1985 rape and murder of 8-year-old Shandra Whitehead. The request came after attorney Barry Scheck, who represents Smith's family, publicly pressed for an investigation. Scheck is co-director of New York's Innocence Project.