This man turned down a plea deal because he says he’s innocent. He’s spent 33 years in prison
In 2004, Ken Middleton made a decision that has cost him nearly two decades of freedom. After being convicted of killing his wife, a crime he maintains he did not commit, prosecutors offered him a deal: He had already spent 14 years in prison for her murder but if he took a plea deal, he would be able to walk free.
Mr Middleton refused, determined to clear his name with a new trial and have his entire conviction overturned.
Nineteen years later he’s still waiting for that chance.
“Most innocent people would have taken that plea just to get out of prison, so I don’t fault anyone for taking it who is innocent,” his son Cliff Middleton told The Independent., “But one thing I can tell you beyond any doubt whatsoever… Every guilty person is going to take that plea.”
Mr Middleton insists his wife, Kathy Middleton, died by accident as she fumbled with a gun.
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