“Being innocent is a thing where you never give up on yourself,” he said Wrongly convicted man released from prison after 36 years
Three people testified that he was asleep at home when the rape occurred.

The fingerprints at the scene were not a match.

He is several inches shorter than the sole witness’s description of the suspect and the witness didn’t point to him as the suspect in two photo line ups.

But he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 1982 rape and stabbing.

Thirty six years later, Archie Williams had his wrongful conviction vacated, as the Innocence Project detailed in a statement.

“Being innocent is a thing where you never give up on yourself, you always fight for your freedom no matter what,” Williams said in a video from outside a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, courthouse shared by The Advocate, a New Orleans newspaper.

He left the 19th Judicial District courthouse on Thursday joined by relatives including his aunt, who said his mother and father died while their son was in prison.

You always fight for your freedom no matter what.
“There is no way to quantify the loss and pain he has endured,” Vanessa Potkin, the director of post-conviction litigation at the Innocence Project, which worked on Williams’ case since he reached out to them in 1995, said in a statement. “The Innocence Project fought alongside Mr. Williams for close to two and a half decades to be able to utilize advancements in forensic testing to prove his innocence,” Potkin said in a statement.

Williams, who was 22 years old at the time of the rape he was charged with, is now 58 years old.

The decades-long gap between his conviction and his charge being vacated included a series of problems complicated by the absence of certain legal rights.

https://www.smokedscreen.com/2019/03/man-released-over-wrongful-rape-conviction-after-36-years-in-prison/


Lalasticlala

Dem don waste his lyf. hmm!

Na to go rape d rape o. Can't be in jail for nothing

compensation must follows

Zanotty:
Na to go rape d rape o. Can't be in jail for nothing

Zanotty:
Na to go rape d rape o. Can't be in jail for nothing

And what about the real person
i mean the goat that did the raping??

Firstly
lest assume dis man d work
and his salary 20k
dem go pay dis man 36yrs worth of his salary rubbish

whc con3 be that sef??

Nobody spends 36 years in prison in the US for rape.
A convicted rapist will be out in 5-7 years with good behavior.
There must be other serious crimes involved.