A GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly $45,000 for Barry Jones, who spent nearly three decades “wrongfully incarcerated” in the 1994 killing of a Tucson girl.
By Jasmine Kabiri Cronkite News For Barry Jones, the compensation for spending 28 years on Arizona’s death row before his release in June could come out to about $10 a day.A GoFundMe campaign set up by Andrew Sowards, a retired criminal investigator who was part of Jones’ defense team had raised $44,685 as of Thursday with a goal of $106,360 — or $10 for each of the 10,636 days Jones spent “wrongfully incarcerated” in Arizona state prisons in the 1994 killing of a Tucson girl.
“Mr. Jones has been held more than accountable,” said Pima County Attorney Laura Conover, whose office originally prosecuted Jones. Jones was convicted on all counts against him in April 1995 and sentenced to death. He pursued several appeals in subsequent years, including one that reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.
But by the time Jones’ case returned to federal district court, Arizona had a new attorney general — Kris Mayes — and prosecutors were willing to listen to new evidence presented by his attorneys. Haymond said Mayes’ election last year “played a vital role in making justice happen.” The state agreed in May that Jones had shown his trial attorney was ineffective, and agreed to drop all charges against him in exchange for a guilty plea to the second-degree murder of Rachel.
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