"Video evidence frees man charged in double murder," is the Associated Press report, via the San Francisco Chronicle.
A judge has thrown out a double-murder case against a Compton man after security videos indicated he wasn't at the scene of the killings.Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor Wright dismissed charges against Justin Scott, 19, on Tuesday after prosecutors — citing new evidence — said they couldn't prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Scott, who had been held without bail since his Oct. 9 arrest, was then set free. He reunited with his mother outside the courthouse.
"I knew he was innocent but the way they came at us, came at me, came at my son, it was unjust," Netta Williams told KCBS-TV. "The world that we live in, you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty."
Scott was charged with shooting his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend, her 22-year-old boyfriend and the man's 64-year-old grandmother on Oct. 8 in Inglewood. The boyfriend survived.
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