Link to the Show / Show Notes<!--/* Font Definitions */@font-face{font-family:"Times New Roman";panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;}/* Style Definitions */p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent:"";margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;}table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-parent:"";font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}@page Section1{size:8.5in 11.0in;margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;mso-header-margin:.5in;mso-footer-margin:.5in;mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1{page:Section1;}-->In 1970, Barney Brown was a 13-year-old African Americanchild living in Hollywood, Florida, when he was falsely accused of raping awhite woman and robbing her husband. Barney was found innocent of all charges in juvenile court, but the state ofFlorida then re-tried him in adult court for the same crime. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. Barney spent the next 38 years trying to prove his innocence. On September 24, 2008, he was finally exonerated andreleased from prison. Less than a year after he was freed, Jonathan Jackson of the Rainbow PushCoalition invited Barney to Chicago to tell his story. This episode of Innocence Speaks features a recording of that event. Itâsliterally the very first time Barney told his story in public.
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