The best alibi
A Texas man serving a life sentence for armed robbery has had his conviction overturned, after he remembered that he was in jail at the time of the crime. Lawyers for LaDondrell Montgomery, 36, say he failed to tell them of his ironclad alibi before his trial because Montgomery—a serial offender—has been in and out of jail so many times that he “just couldn’t remember, for that particular date, where he was.”
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