Innocent Man Cleared Of Attempted Rape of Girl After Being Imprisoned For 14 Years

Johnny Williams spent 14 years in prison for an attempted rape he never committed. On Friday, a judge overturned his conviction. And on Tuesday, the 37-year-old Williams spoke publicly for the first time.

“I’m truly happy,” Williams said in a one-on-one interview at Santa Clara University. That’s where a team of students and lawyers from the Northern California Innocence Project helped prove that the DNA on a 9-year-old’s T-shirt did not belong to him. The DNA is what led to his 1998 attempted rape arrest.

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