We’ve all heard of cases when an innocent man is freed from prison after someone steps forward, or new evidence appears, to clear the convicted one of his crime. A similar case has surfaced, but in this one an imprisoned man claims he should be released in light of Toyota’s admitted problem with the sudden acceleration of its some of its vehicles.
On the surface, it looks like the Toyota acceleration screw-up not only killed people, but also put a guiltless man in jail.
Koua Fong Lee is serving an eight-year term for a manslaughter conviction stemming from an accident that killed three people. Lee was driving a 1998 Toyota Camry, one of the vehicles recalled by the automaker, when the crash happened.
Lee was 29 when the accident took place in June 2006. He was driving home from church in St. Paul, Minn., with his pregnant wife, daughter, father, brother and niece in his car.
Lee had maintained that his Camry suddenly accelerated. Obviously, a jury didn’t believe him. He crashed into several cars ahead of him, killing Javis Adams and his 10-year-old son, Javis Adams Jr. Another child, 6-year-old Devyn Bolton, also died.
During the trial, the prosecution maintained that Lee, a Laotian immigrant, has his foot on the gas when his car crashed. Two inspections done by mechanical engineers maintained that the car’s brakes were working when the crash took place.
Lee’s legal counsel plans to ask court approval to have his Camry from the accident, which is still in police custody, examined by experts who are familiar with the car’s acceleration problems
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