“You can’t kill a dead man.” That was the sole theory of Jeffrey Workman’s lawyer, who argued that the man his client shot was already dead when Workman walked into the middle of a gunfight between Gary Moses and Lawson Hunt in Philadelphia.

But the medical examiner testified that Hunt was still alive after Moses shot him, and that it was Workman who fired the ricochet shot that killed Hunt. The jury, apparently not convinced of Workman’s defense, convicted him of first-degree murder and acquitted Moses in 2006. Workman has been incarcerated at Albion state prison since then.