http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/glenn-ford-black-man-wrongfully-convicted_n_4944670.html
After nearly three decades of being a prisoner on death row, Glenn Ford, 64 and black, was convicted by an all-white jury in 1983 robbery and murder of Ishadore Rozeman, the owner of the jewelry store that was robbed. Ford was found guilty in 1984 and sentenced to death by electrocution. Ford has been held at Louisiana Penitentiary in Angola since March 1985.
For three decades, Ford has maintained his innocence and filed many appeals, most of which were denied. In 2000, there was a hearing on Ford's claim that the prosecution did not mention evidence related to Jake and Henry Robinson, two brothers who were initially implicated to the crime. An unidentified informat in 2013 told the prosecutors Jake Robinson had admitted to killing Rozeman.
It is horrible what has happened to Glenn Ford for the last three decades. The justice system has wrongly convicted him and neglected evidence that would have acquit him of the crimes. The implementation of the test can save a man or woman from living on death row and condemn the real guilty party.
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