He unfairly served 36 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, now he is finally free. Maybe too late.
The story, as often happens in the United States, concerns an African American.
Walter Sullivan was a teenager when he was arrested for rape in New Orleans. Now, 36 years later, he was released because a Louisiana judge determined he hadn't committed any crime .
A case that demonstrates how racial prejudice continues to pervade the American judicial system, says the Innocence Project New Orleans.
Sullivan had been sentenced to 39 years in prison after a single day of trial , despite the authorities failing to prove any correspondence between the seminal fluid and Walter's blood.
"I am ready to live. I want to live an honest and free life," said he - now 53 - after leaving prison, according to local newspapers.
(Unioneonline / L)
