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Until then, enjoy the program. In 1997. In 1997, Joe Tash was murdered in Trout Creek, Montana.

His best friend, Richard Roggist, was convicted and sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison,

largely based on the testimony of a man named Worry Ross.

Ross claimed that on the night of the murder, he'd been hanging out with both Roggest and

Tash, and after they'd gone back to the campsite to continue their party, Ruggas had shot his friend.

Ross did call 911 and reported that Joe Tash had been killed and that Ruggas had done it.

And within a few hours, Ruggist had been arrested.

He was in prison from then until December 2015, when a court found that the state had committed

an unintentional Brady violation, that a cop had witnessed an event that matched perfectly with

the alibi Roggest maintained since 1997.

This cop's statement, though, wasn't discovered until a few years ago when an investigator

with the Montana Innocence Project interviewed him.

Ruggist had had previous appeals, but they were all denied.

And one, after Ruggist had tried to introduce evidence that Rory Ross had himself confessed to Joe Tash's murder,

the prosecutor opposed Ruggist's motion, stating that nothing Ross said could be relied upon,

because, quote, even if Ross's alleged confession were new evidence,

the mumblings of a drunk town drunk has absolutely no reliability. It was not until his 2013 motion in which the Montana Innocence Project raised the Brady claim that Headway was finally made

on Richard's case. I first heard from Richard's attorney, Brett Shandelson, over a year ago now.

Brett had been volunteering on Richard's case since 2013, and in November 2015, he sent

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