By MICHAEL R. SISAK | Associated Press
NEW YORK — Years before Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce was born, his father spent time in prison for an armed robbery conviction that prosecutors now say was tainted by a detective’s lies and “highly suggestive” photo identification techniques.
On Friday, a suburban New York judge agreed and erased 67-year-old Jeffrey Koonce’s conviction and dismissed his indictment more than four decades after a 1981 robbery at Vernon Stars Rod and Gun Club in Mount Vernon.