**FILE PHOTO** James Thomas, who was released after spending eight years in jail on a murder charge without being tried, stands outside his mother’s house, April 19, 2005, in Baton Rouge, La. A judge ordered the release of Thomas and his brother Percy Dyer after an appeal court’s ruling that prosecutors had waited too long to try them in a 1996 killing. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)
8 years in a Louisiana jail, but he never went to trial
