article_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of two 1985 murders that occurred during robberies of fast-food restaurants near Birmingham.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors linked Anthony Ray Hinton to the killings through a .38-caliber revolver found at Anthony Ray Hinton house.
article_snippet.sent: At Anthony Ray Hinton initial trial, state experts testified that the four bullets fired during the robberies, and another two from a similar robbery-shooting at a Quincy's restaurant in Bessemer, had all been fired from a revolver found at Anthony Ray Hinton's home.
article_snippet.sent: The only potential evidence that has ever been available to the State to prove that the Defendant committed the murders of John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason depends upon an absolute, conclusive determination that the bullets recovered from the Defendant committed the murders of John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason bodies were in fact fired through the barrel of the firearm taken from the (Hinton's) home,' the motionsays. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of shooting to death two fast food restaurant mangers in two separate 1985 robberies .
  