Why is this innocent man still in prison after judge overturned conviction?
David Robinson always maintained that he was innocent of the 2001 of killing Sheila Box who was shot to death while leaving a bar. But Robinson’s past criminal history reportedly made him a prime suspect and a police informant fingered him as the killer which ultimately sent him to prison for life without parole.
CBS News reports, that Monday night, Robinson was released from Jefferson City Correctional Center on the recommendation of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley who called for the charges to be dismissed.
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“Been a living nightmare. It’s been an up-and-down rollercoaster,” Robinson told “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty in a recent interview in prison.
Robinson said he never shot Box as police believed. They said he shot her during a drug deal.
“That bothered me more than anything, to be wrongfully accused of killing a woman,” Robinson said.
To add insult to injury there was no physical evidence tying Robinson to the case. The paid police informant Albert Baker, was said to be an eyewitness.
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“There were no three or four eyewitnesses who saw him shoot her; there was just one guy who had a crazy story, and bam, he’s gone.”
Romanze Mosby confessed to killing Box three years after Robinson was sentenced. He said, “I told her to throw the money, throw the money out and I’m gonna throw her the dope.”
Mosby said he got scared when he said Box with a gun: “And that’s when I just shot her, because I’d seen a little flash. I was walking up to it and she just raised her arm and that’s when I shot her.”
Mosby committed suicide in 2009 and Robinson remained in prison even after the confession.
“I gave false testimony against David Robinson,” said Albert Baker, the paid informant. Baker was given $2,500 in cash and expenses if he agreed to give false testimony.
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Last February, Judge Darrell Missey ruled in Robinson’s favor because of the overwhelming unreliable evidence that he was innocent and the conviction was overturned.
Robinson says he is still hurt after all these years.
Moriarty asked Robinson: “You’re still sitting here. How do you explain that to your family?”
“I can’t,” he replied. “I mean, I get asked that question every day by staff, by other offenders. But it hurt every time they ask me.”
Moriarty asked Robinson, “What do you want to do when you get out? What’s the first thing you want to do?”
His reply: “Hug my mother.”
