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Benjamine Spencer was 22 years old in 1987 when he was arrested for murder. He was newly married, and expecting his first child.
A Dallas man who maintains he was wrongfully convicted in a deadly robbery decades ago may soon be freed.
Witnesses said they saw Benjamine Spencer on the 1987 night Jeffrey Young was robbed and beaten, his body dumped on a street in West Dallas. Attorney Cheryl Wattley says these eyewitness accounts were shoddy.
“One witness claimed, at a distance of 297 feet that’s a football field at 10 o’clock at night, on a night with no moon, he saw Ben Spencer and recognized him by his face, Wattley said. That’s physically impossible.”
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Benjamine Spencer is the luckiest of the unlucky.
January 28, 2021
Benjamine Spencer at the H. H. Coffield Unit (Nathan Bajar)
Every morning, long before dawn, Benjamine Spencer slips out of his bunk, dresses quietly in his white uniform, and heads to his job. He tiptoes so as not to wake up the 110 men in his dorm room men who have been convicted of murder, rape, drug trafficking, and other violent crimes in one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons in Texas. For nearly 34 years, Spencer, who is Black, has served time for a robbery that resulted in the death of a white man, a conviction he insists is “an awful mistake.” And in this, he is not alone: A Texas trial judge, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, independent investigators and attorneys, alibi witnesses, not to mention three of the four witnesses who testified against him, have all said that Spencer had nothing to do with the assault. None of that has mattered. According to Texas courts,
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