In 2006, Wardell Newsome was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in an Arkansas prison. The State's case rested upon the testimony of a single eyewitness, who claimed that Newsome was a triggerman at the scene of the crime. Since trial, however, credible evidence has emerged showing that Newsome was innocent and that the prosecution's sole eyewitness was miles away from the scene at the time the murder occurred. Newsome's quest for a new trial was denied, although he presented devastating forensic evidence, eyewitness accounts, evidence of an alternative suspect, and four alibi witnesses in support of his innocence claim...
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