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Fighting for the Innocent

By James Call

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Tallahassee, Fl – A group of Florida lawyers that includes former Supreme Court justices and former presidents of the American Bar Association has petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to create an innocence commission. James Call reports DNA technology has identified in recent years that at least twelve Floridians were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.