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Supreme Court says man who spent 46 years in prison deserves wrongful conviction compensation

Por: The Advocate Crime May 06, 2023

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It took nearly 46 years for Wilbert Jones to clear his name after being wrongfully convicted of raping a nurse outside Baton Rouge General Hospital.But in a decision announced Friday, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld an appeals court ruling that deemed Jones “factually innocent” of the 1971 rape and paved the way for him to be compensated financially for the decades he spent behind bars. He was a little emotional when I talked to him, said... + full article



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