How mum's selfie saved man from 99-year prison sentence

Spotted this story and found it interesting for various reasons, while it is nice to see that the law worked in this case, one cannot help but had been a case at a University, the exculpatory evidence would have been ignored entirely.

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A man has managed to avoid 99 years in jail thanks to a selfie taken by his mum. Christopher Precopia, 21, was arrested in September 2017 for allegedly breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home, attacking her with a box cutter and carving an X onto her chest, KVUE reports.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/mums-selfi...034336875.html