Jeffery Archangel, wrongfully accused and jailed for a murder he didn't commit, is now suing Houston police for civil rights violations after the charges were dropped just before trial.
Imagine being locked in a cell for three and a half years, accused of a brutal murder, you had nothing to do with. That’s what Jeffery Archangel claims happened to him. In February 2017, Javier Flores jumped in front of his mother, Hilda Vazquez, as two armed robbers stuck up the Subway they worked at, according to police.
"They could have used a more recent picture, like when he was arrested – why didn’t they use that?" He says the car believed to be the suspect car did not have any DNA belonging to Jeffery inside it. "Jeffery’s DNA was not in the car, it was Derrick Welch’s," he said. He says the next ‘Smoking Gun’ in his defense, was Archangel’s hand tattoos. "He had a lot of tattoos on his right hand," said Fosher.
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