Four people said they saw Vance Haskell burst into an Erie bar and gun down Darrell Cooley in 1994, but only one testified at trial. According to a federal appeals court, that witness lied on the stand, and the prosecutor who handled the case did nothing to address it.
Antoinette Blue, who was facing numerous unrelated criminal charges, said at Haskell’s 1998 murder trial that she saw him pull out an Uzi in Jethroe’s Steakhouse, a local bar, and shoot Cooley to death—but she lied about her legal troubles and a deal she had with prosecutors to lessen her sentence in exchange for her testimony.
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