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Exonerated 2019

Archie Williams

Year
2019
Where
Louisiana
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
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Archie Williams was exonerated in 2019 of attempted murder and rape in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had been convicted in 1983 at age 22.

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