Two relatives spent decades in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. Only one is getting compensated.
Two relatives spent decades in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. Only one is getting compensated
Via CBS News By Tyler Kendall on October 31st
Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams spent 43 years behind bars for the same crime. The nephew and uncle are both innocent and have been exonerated — yet only one is eligible to be compensated for the wrongful conviction.
In 1976, Williams and Myers were wrongly convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder for a shooting that left one person dead and another injured in a Florida apartment complex.
This year, they became the first to be exonerated under the state’s Conviction Integrity Unit, an initiative that gives incarcerated individuals the ability to petition their cases if they present a claim of innocence. Myers and Williams walked free in March after the state uncovered and corroborated new physical and scientific evidence.