Guest column: Wrongful conviction compensation law needs fixing
Guest column: Wrongful conviction compensation law needs fixing
Via Jacksonville.com by Posted Oct 4, 2019, at 1:00 PM
Think about everything that has happened in your life over the past 42 years. That is the amount of time that my uncle Clifford Williams and I lost when we were wrongly convicted of a Jacksonville murder in 1976.
We lost our freedom, but I refused to lose hope. With the help of the Innocence Project of Florida, our case was re-investigated under State Attorney Melissa Nelson’s new conviction review unit. Uncle Clifford and I finally walked free on March 28.