Wednesday, October 16, 2002|
If the police arrest you and a rape victim positively identifies you and a jury convicts you, you must be guilty. The victim herself, said she looked into your eyes the whole time. You are guilty and you're going to do hard time. Except, what if you're not guilty? Michael Green spent thirteen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Through DNA testing he was finally exonerated. But it was a different Michael Green that walked out of prison. He was educated, a dedicated Muslim and he had let go of the anger that had fueled so much of his life. Asked by reporters, he said he was not bitter about the lost time. Now his job was to begin a new life.
It sounds like a TV movie and maybe it will be someday. But his story is real and Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Connie Schultz has writen a multipart feature, "Burden of Innocence", that shows us what life for Michael Green was like before, during and after prison. She tells about this amazing man who struggles to find a job while being labeled an "ex-con", even though he has a paper from the judge saying he was innocent. |
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