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A 63-year-old Michigan man, who has been occupying a jail cell for the past 37 years, is no longer a resident at that prison. According to
The Detroit Free Press, Walter Forbes of Detroit is now a free man after spending almost four decades in jail.
A Black man has been exonerated after nearly 4 decades in prison, after a main witness admitted to lying.
Walter Forbes, now 63, was initially sentenced to life in prison.
Black people are 13% of the U.S. population, but make up half of exonerations, per @exonerationlist. pic.twitter.com/bBuMT44KPE
One night back in 1982, Walter Forbes broke up a fight at a bar. Dennis Hall, a man who was involved in that altercation, came back the next day and shot Forbes for his role in the altercation. Hall ended up perishing in an apartment fire that was allegedly deliberately set on July 12, 1982. Due to his dispute with Hall, Forbes immediately became a suspect in the arson.