Ohio man exonerated after spending 27 years in prison for murder he didn't commit. The State will now pay 40k per year wrongfully imprisoned & all his legal fees.

He was so thankful that he did not get the death penalty, buyt it makes you wonder how many other people are wrongfully behind bars.

Kwame Ajamu was just 17 when he was convicted of murder in the killing of a Cleveland money-order salesman. On Tuesday, Ajamu, now 57 and out on parole since 2003, wept after a judge cleared all charges against him.

 

What exactly happened?

In 1975, two people had attacked Harold Franks with acid, and one of the people shot him. A third person drove a getaway car. A 12-year-old boy, Eddie Vernon, served as the state’s main witness in the case, and a jury convicted Bridgeman (as he was known at the time), along with his brother Wiley Bridgeman, then 20, and Ricky Jackson, 19.

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