Man Exonerated After 22 Years in Prison
Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006
It’s been one stop after another for freed inmate Alan Newton, who was released from prison last week after 22 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.
After a week of parties, picnics and public appearances, Newton, a former bank teller from the Bronx, is adjusting to life on the outside after DNA testing cleared him in the vicious rape and beating of a Bronx woman whose shaky identification sent him away for nearly half his life.
VIDEO: DNA Clears Wrongly Convicted Man for Rape
After a week of parties, picnics and public appearances, Newton, a former bank teller from the Bronx, is adjusting to life on the outside after DNA testing cleared him in the vicious rape and beating of a Bronx woman whose shaky identification sent him away for nearly half his life.
VIDEO: DNA Clears Wrongly Convicted Man for Rape
“I kept my hope alive,” an emotional Newton said outside the courtroom where a judge vacated his conviction after a joint motion from his lawyers and prosecutors. “I didn’t know when it was going to happen. I kept my spirits up for 22 years.”
Newton, whose mother died while he was in prison -- when Ronald Reagan was president, and gasoline was $1.20 a gallon -- is now adjusting to a new world of cell phones, Ipods and digital cameras, not to mention the joys and challenges of new-found freedom.
That transition is likely to be made easier if Newton collects on what is expected to be a multi-million dollar wrongful imprisonment lawsuit.
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Innocent Man Freed After 14 Years
Oct 9, 2007
Ronald Taylor was released from prison Tuesday after serving 14 years for a rape he didn't commit. Oct. 9, 2007. Video by Meg Loucks.
Instead of going directly to his mother's kitchen for the home cooking he'd been denied while serving 14 years for a rape he didn't commit, Ronald Gene Taylor's first order of business after getting out of prison Tuesday was to confront the mayor at City Hall. He urges City Hall to prevent the same ordeal from happening to another innocent person. SEE VIDEO CLICK HERE
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October 25, 2007
Innocent man shares his 20-year struggle behind bars
Willie "Pete" Williams had no idea when he was pulled over by police that the criminal justice system was about to steal away half his life.
Sitting in the flashing glow of Atlanta squad car lights along Georgia State Road 400, the 23-year-old part-time house painter didn't know police were looking for a rapist who had struck nearby three weeks earlier.
Police questioned -- and then arrested Williams, triggering a series of mistaken witness identifications that led to his unjust conviction for rape, kidnapping and aggravated sodomy. FULL STORY CLICK HERE
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After 21 Years in Prison – including 16 on Death Row – Curtis McCarty is Exonerated Based on DNA Evidence
Sitting in the flashing glow of Atlanta squad car lights along Georgia State Road 400, the 23-year-old part-time house painter didn't know police were looking for a rapist who had struck nearby three weeks earlier.
Police questioned -- and then arrested Williams, triggering a series of mistaken witness identifications that led to his unjust conviction for rape, kidnapping and aggravated sodomy. FULL STORY CLICK HERE
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After 21 Years in Prison – including 16 on Death Row – Curtis McCarty is Exonerated Based on DNA Evidence
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