https://news.yahoo.com/wrongfully-convicted-tennessee-man-released-161554324.html
Mariah Timms, Nashville Tennessean
,USA TODAY•November 12, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The first thing he did was hug his mom.
Joseph Webster, 41, was released from custody in Nashville on Tuesday after nearly 15 years in Tennessee prisons on a life sentence for a crime the courts now believe he didn't commit.
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Webster was convicted in 2006 on a charge of first-degree murder in the 1998 killing of Leroy Owens. Webster was indicted on the murder charge while in custody for a lesser conviction and has spent nearly two decades in jail on the combined sentences.
But a years-long investigation by the District Attorney's Conviction Review Unit revealed new evidence that led the state to fully lose confidence in the case against Webster.
A Nashville judge ordered his conviction be vacated, paving the way for his release and the ultimate dismissal of the murder charge against him.
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