USA - Texas. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have filed documents asking for a new trial for Michael Toney

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have filed documents asking for a new trial for Michael Toney, saying the state's lead prosecutor improperly withheld evidence in his 1999 trial. Toney was sentenced to death in the killings of three people in the bombing of a mobile home  1985. In court documents filed today, the 2 sides said Toney's trial attorneys weren't given at least 14 pieces of evidence that could have discredited state witnesses or pointed to other suspects. "I want a new trial so that the truth can be exposed and so that I can be exonerated," Toney said in an e-mail statement, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its online edition. "I do not have any hard feelings toward anyone, but I do believe that prosecutors such as Mike Parrish should be held accountable. He has caused me more than a quarter of my life and taxpayers millions." The state denies it knowingly sponsored misleading testimony and denies Toney is innocent. It said it agreed with the defense that he was entitled to a new trial. If the judge supports the attorneys' findings, he will send his recommendation to the Court of Criminal Appeals, which could order a new trial. Angela Blount, 15; her father, Joe Blount, 44; and her cousin Michael Columbus, 18, were killed on Thanksgiving Day, 1985, when a briefcase with a bomb in it blew up on the porch of their mobile home. Toney was indicted in December 1997 after allegedly telling another inmate in the Parker County Jail that he was paid $5,000 to put the bomb at the mobile home but put it at the wrong trailer.