After six years of waiting to bring this case to trial, capital murder charges against a man from south Alabama have been dropped.
WPMI-TV reported that Yeldon Rostchild was released from prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to an obstruction charge in a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Rostchild is one of two individuals who were charged with capital murder for the 2017 shooting death Donta Russell, in Escambia county, Alabama. This case was set to be tried this week.
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Rostchild had asked the judge to dismiss an indictment. In a court document, she wrote that in six years , prosecutors have not produced any evidence connecting him to the shooting or are refusing to obey “this court’s order to provide said evidence.”
Yeldon Rostchild, who was held for six years in prison for murder without conclusive evidence of the crime, has been released.
“It is not a question of the state providing evidence. It’s a question of whether it existed. The defense attorney told the TV station that this man has been in prison for six years.
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Stephen Billy, Escambia’s District Attorney, told the station via email that the capital murder charges were amended “by agreeing to an obstruction charge.”
” When a case has been around for this long, the evidence tends weaken. This was the case in this case. He said that they settled on the time served.