美國男子因酷似劫匪無辜坐牢17年 獲賠110萬美元

A man who spent 17 years in prison for crimes committed by a lookalike has been awarded a $1.1 million settlement by the state of Kansas.

因長相酷似罪犯而誤判入獄服刑17年的一名男子，近日獲得了美國堪薩斯州提供的110萬美元的賠償。

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced last Wednesday that he had agreed to a resolution with Richard Jones, who was imprisoned in 2000 for an aggravated robbery he did not commit.

堪薩斯州司法部長德里克·施密特上週三宣佈，2000年因惡意搶劫入獄的理查德·瓊斯並沒有犯罪。

Jones was convicted of trying to steal a purse in the parking lot of a WalMart in Roeland Park, Kansas.

當年，瓊斯因被指控試圖在堪薩斯州羅蘭德公園的沃爾瑪停車場偷盜錢包。

There was no physical evidence, DNA or fingerprints that linked him to the crime, and he had an alibi -- he was at his girlfriend's home in Kansas City.

當時並沒有物證、DNA或指紋能證明他與該案件有關，並且他還有不在場證明--因爲當時他在女友位於堪薩斯城的家中。

But, two eyewitnesses misidentified him, telling police that either a light-skinned Hispanic or African-American man committed the crime and picking him out of six mugshots.

但是兩名目擊者認錯了他，他們對警方表示，犯罪分子可能是淺膚色的西班牙裔或者非洲裔男子，並在六張臉部照片中指認出了瓊斯。

He was released last year after the Midwest Innocence Project and the University of Kansas School of Law helped uncover the wrongful conviction.

在中西部無罪項目和堪薩斯大學法學院幫助揭發錯誤判決之後，瓊斯於去年被無罪釋放。

A judge ordered him released after witnesses, including the robbery victim, could not tell him and another inmate in the system, Ricky Amos, apart.

據悉，在搶劫案受害者和目擊者都無法將瓊斯和監獄裏的另一名囚犯瑞奇·阿莫斯區分開來之後，一位法官下令釋放了他。

Amos and Jones are close in age, have similar skin tone, the same facial hair and cornrows.

阿莫斯和瓊斯年齡相仿，膚色相似，面部毛髮和頭髮也相同。

"I hoped and prayed every day for this day to come, and when it finally got here it was an overwhelming feeling," Jones told ABC News last year.

瓊斯去年在接受美國廣播公司採訪時表示：“我每天都在盼望和祈禱這一天的到來，當它終於到來的時候，有一種如釋重負的感覺。”