A lawyer recently helped overturn an innocent man’s conviction — in the same state that, years ago, had sentenced him to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Jarrett Adams was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault at age 17 and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum security prison.
Inside prison, Adams met a cellmate who worked for the prison law library and encouraged him to try to get his conviction overturned.
“It’s only going to take a second before you have tattoos on your face and have given up and completely don’t care at all. You need to go down swinging,” he told Adams.
Adams took his advice and started reading law books. Then he got in touch with attorney Keith Findley with the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a state chapter of the nonprofit devoted to…
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