A man who has spent nearly
forty years in prison after being
convicted of murder is expected
to be freed on Friday after a
witness confessed that he lied as
a boy when he told jurors that he
saw the deadly attack.
Ricky Jackson had been seeking
a new trial and sobbed loudly
with his face in his hands as
prosecutors dismissed his case
Tuesday, The Plain
Dealer reported.
“I can’t believe this is over,”
Jackson, 57, said, thanking his
supporters and his attorneys
from the Ohio Innocence Project.
Jackson has been imprisoned for
39 years, serving a life sentence
for aggravated murder and other
charges, according to state
prison records. He is expected to
be released as soon as the
paperwork is finished.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
Timothy McGinty said the case fell
apart after witness Eddie Vernon
recanted. Vernon said he had
been fed details of the crime by
police and kept quiet about his
lies because investigators had
threatened to imprison his
parents.
Vernon was 12 when he accused
Jackson and two brothers in the
May 1975 killing of a money-
order collector who authorities
said was beaten, shot and
attacked with acid as he walked
near a grocery store. No evidence
connected the defendants to the
crime, but all three were
convicted by juries.
This week, Vernon told a judge
he was trying to please others
when he provided a false story
based on information from a
friend and police who fed him
details, creating a web of lies that
helped convict Jackson and the
other men. He said he gave
authorities the names of the
three men because he thought
he was doing the right thing. www.fadoflow.com/man-wrongly-convicted-of-murder-to-be-freed-after-serving-39-years/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter
Whats your take or reactions on this if you were or knows the victim?

Lawsuit one way except in Nigeria, i'll just walk away. Drop yours. Merci

Do the needful

Bridgetown:
Do the needful

And that's?

Too bad

Injustice that man should be giving a job a house two cars 50million and a wife

O make that

2 wifes

I pity him

This dude just turned to a multi-millionaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yV_HLDjMlw

[size=15pt]Ricky Jackson freed from prison after 39 years for wrongful murder conviction[/size]

Ricky Jackson became a free man after 39 years in prison when Judge Richard McMonagle threw out his conviction on a 1975 murder at a Cleveland grocery store based on a lie by then 12-year-old Eddie Vernon. Vernon recanted his story this week to set

Shouldn't they then jail the liar?

samflexxy:
Injustice that man should be giving a job a house two cars 50million and a wife

O make that

2 wifes

You forgot to add Tax-free living till death.

Darn! He might as well return back in there, to spend the rest of his life.

He won't be able to connect with the world again, to be honest.

shymexx:
Darn! He might as well return back in there, to spend the rest of his life.

He won't be able to connect with the world again, to be honest.

I don't think that would be neccessary, he has history to create by becoming the most wealthy freed prisoner. Just that Nigeria... *shuts mouth*

the bloody liar took 39 years from an innocent man!

cassyrooy:
I don't think that would be neccessary, he has history to create by becoming the most wealthy freed prisoner. Just that Nigeria... *shuts mouth*

Lol, I hear that.

Someone please pass him Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" speech.

Akoba,adaba oloun maje nri amin
Oma se o

"When you find yourself in prison you don't have to be a prison. Got to be a man and keep fighting!!!"