Source:
CBS News(Bonus story below)
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Anthony was convicted of fatally shooting a man outside a South Los Angeles brothel in a 1995 trial and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But last Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kelvin D. Filer overturned Anthony's conviction after determining that the prosecution's star witness, a pimp, lied to the jury.
Anthony said he wasn't at the scene and has maintained his innocence.
Laurie Levenson, who helped secure Anthony's release, said the witness has since admitted that his previous testimony was wrong and that he never saw the shooter.
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Student members of the Project for the Innocent team at Loyola Law School and the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law worked on Anthony's case for 3 ½ years and appeared at a September evidentiary hearing.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/04/ap/business/main20115758.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1
Bonus Story:
Wrongly Imprisoned Man Goes Free After 25 Years
A Texas grocery store employee who was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 25 years in prison in his wife's beating death walked free Tuesday after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. His attorneys say prosecutors and investigators deliberately kept evidence out of court that would have helped acquit him at trial
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/04/national/main20115395.shtml?tag=stack