USA - Texas. Michael Roy Toney, a former condemned inmate, has been released.

Michael Roy Toney, a former condemned inmate, has been released. In December, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Toney's conviction after the district attorney's office acknowledged that evidence was withheld during Toney's 1999 trial. (see also 02/10/2008). Toney was freed tonight from the Tarrant County Jail. Toney was sentenced to death for the 1985 Thanksgiving night bombing bombing deaths of 3 people in a trailer. The bombing killed 15-year-old Angela Blount, her 44-year-old father Joe Blount and her 18-year-old cousin Michael Columbus. The lead prosecutor in the 1999 trial, Mike Parrish, left the district attorney's office last year. He has always maintained his innocence, and there was no physical evidence leading to his conviction. The state has reserved the right to continue its investigation and to retry Toney if warranted. Because of the state's active investigation and possibility of a new trial, Michael Toney's case has not yet been added to the list of those exonerated from death row.