Keith Allen Harward
- Year
- 2016
- Where
- Virginia
- Source
- Innocence Project
- Evidence
- 1
Keith Allen Harward walked out of prison on April 8, 2016, after wrongly serving more than 33 years for a rape and murder he did not commit.
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