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From the very beginning of Mooney's trial, there were indications of a frame-up. Testifying against Mooney were two witnesses whose truthfulness and motives for testifying became highly questionable. Evidence of prosecutorial misconduct and the manipulation and distortion of the evidence produced by police investigators began to surface even before the trial ended. In response to the prosecution's accusations, the defense called witnesses who had occupied the building overlooking the site of the explosion and who could testify that Mooney had not been observed in that area. An alibi witness, an amateur photographer, produced photographic evidence that Mooney and his wife were standing one and a half miles away from the site of the explosion only moments before the bomb detonated. Nonetheless, Mooney was convicted, the jury voting for the death penalty. Not until years later did it become known that the principal witness against Mooney had...
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