Friday, June 18, 2010

Innocent Black Man Freed After 16 Years In Jail


From BlackVoices.com:

Jabar Collins spent 16 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. He was freed after a judge discovered that prosecuters hid the fact that several of their witnesses who testified, benefited from doing so from the jury.

Sometimes DNA evidence is the reason these men are freed. Other times, it’s witnesses who recant their testimony, false witness identification and coerced confessions.

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