Man Exonerated Of Murder After Spending 17 Years In Prison

[Richard D]

Obie Anthony spent 17 long years in prison for a murder in South Los Angeles.

Now, Anthony has been exonerated and was able to walk out of prison Tuesday night into the arms of his fiancee and family.

“It’s breathtaking … it’s amazing … it’s so, so, so relieving to be free, finally,” Anthony said. “I don’t know, it’s hard exactly how to express it.”

Anthony’s release is due, in large part, to the work of legal volunteers working for the “Project for the Innocent” team at Loyola Law School and the “Northern California Innocence Project” at Santa Clara University School of Law. These student volunteers and new attorneys have worked on the case for nearly four years and appeared at a September evidentiary hearing.


http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/04/local-students-help-free-man-after-he-spent-17-years-in-prison/


I can't help but read that and think about Troy Davis.

[pnwmom]

1. Thanks to all the hardworking legal volunteers. I hope they're

working in all 50 states.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Me too

Thanks for sharing this.