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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:03 PM Nov 2014

Strangers raise more than $30,000 for exonerated men, one holds 1st ever cell phone

As of a few minutes ago, $3900 for Wiley, 29000 for Ricky raised on gofundme pages

Strangers have raised tens of thousands of dollars to help two former death row inmates who spent decades in prison for a 1975 murder before being exonerated.

Ricky Jackson, 57, and Wiley Bridgeman, 60, walked free from prison on Friday after a witness, who was just 12 at the time, revealed he had lied about seeing the murder in Cleveland, Ohio.


The witness recanted his testimony last year, saying he had accused the men of killing a businessman following police threats.

In just three days since their release, thousands of dollars in donations have been sent to

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2847573/Strangers-raise-30-000-two-former-death-row-inmates-exonerated-1975-murder.html

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