Crosspost From GD - A Cool Story

[ProfessorGAC]

For those who don't want to read the whole piece:

- Young black guy railroaded into a prison term for murder.
- His art skills make a guard ask him to turn a picture of Augusta National into a pencil work.
- Golf Digest finds out about his drawings.
- Writer gets really suspicious about the evidence
- Case gets reopened
- Conviction vacated and guy goes free.

It's a good story.
[link:https://www.golfdigest.com/story/for-valentino-dixon-a-wrong-righted-murder-charge-vacated-by-court-after-serving-27-years-in-prison?mbid=nl_092018_daily_hitlist&CNDID=23405133&spMailingID=14287551&spUserID=MTMyNjM1NzMwNTIxS0&spJobID=1481681084&spReportId=MTQ4MTY4MTA4NAS2|

[True Dough]

1. Except the part about losing 27 years of his life!

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That man deserves some serious compensation!

But, yeah, cool story otherwise. Glad he's free.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I Should Have Said That, Too

Good catch Dough. But, at least someone went to bat for him and they got a hit.