Saying its key witnesses gave contradictory accounts that would not hold up at trial, the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office announced today that it will drop an armed robbery case in which the suspect wound up on the doorstep of former Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan.
Elton “Toobie” Phillips, 20, was the only person charged in an Oct. 11 incident in which a man reported he was threatened at gunpoint at a gas station on Gen. de Gaulle Drive in Algiers.
But during its investigation and pretrial preparations, the attorney general’s office concluded that the recollections of the only state witnesses to the actual incident, the alleged victim and his girlfriend, are misleading.
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