The Las Vegas Raiders are going through a ridiculously tough season for themselves and their fans. They’re 3-12 through 15 games and are surely looking at a top draft pick in 2025. Their first task will be finding a franchise quarterback of the future.
However, one of their current players is experiencing something incredible outside of football.
Raiders Star Malcolm Koonce’s Father Has 4 Decade Conviction Tossed (Breaking)
The father of Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce served time in prison for armed robbery convictions that prosecutors now say were tainted by questionable police tactics and an unreliable witness:
On Friday, a suburban New York judge agreed, erasing 67-year-old Jeffrey Koonce’s conviction and dismissing his indictment more than four decades after a 1981 robbery at Vernon Stars Rod and Gun Club in Mount Vernon.
Koonce, who spent nearly eight years in prison, has always maintained his innocence and insisted that he was nowhere near the club, where three people were struck by shotgun pellets as patrons were looted of cash and jewelry.
Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah backed his request to erase the conviction after her office uncovered problems with the case.
“I feel like a burden has been lifted off my shoulder,” Koonce said as a judge cleared his name.
Rocah’s Conviction Review Unit investigated the 1983 conviction and found evidence that Mount Vernon police pressured the lone victim-witness to implicate Koonce, made Koonce’s picture larger than others in a photo array and failed to interview alibi witnesses who corroborated his claim that he was elsewhere.
Certainly a shock for their family, obviously a good one. Here is a look at how Koonce has performed this throughout his career:
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