A man who had to spend nearly two decades incarcerated for a $550 robbery he didn’t commit has finally been freed.
Prosecutors now say Kenneth Windley should never have been found guilty of charges connected to the robbery of an elderly man in 2005.
According to a release from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, the actual robbery suspects stole two unsigned money orders — one for $542, the other for $9 — from 70-year-old Gerald Ross in April 2005 as he was walking home after finishing up errands at the bank and post office.
Windley, who was in his 40s at the time, said he ran into the two suspects as he was leaving his girlfriend’s house. They offered to sell him the larger money order they claimed they no longer needed…