In ordering a new trial for Raymond and Thomas Highers, Wayne County Circuit Judge Lawrence Talon said that new witnesses who never went to police about the shotgun slaying of Robert Karey, 65, offered enough new evidence during the hearing to erase the 1988 decision by then-Judge Terrance Boyle to convict the brothers and sentence them to life in prison, Jim Schaefer reports in the Free Press.
Older brother Thomas is now 46. Raymond just turned the same age.
Talon said he didn't buy the arguments of the prosecution that new witnesses discovered starting in 2009 were too inconsistent, unreliable and untrustworthy. And he outright dismissed suggestions that they had concocted their testimony to free the brothers.
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