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Wow! Great story worth reading He spent 21 years im Prison for a crime he never commited. Plead to reopen his case and got free. Then turn around and sued won $1.3 million"He was 24 when the jury convicted him on all eight counts.Aggravated burglary. Aggravated robbery. Kidnapping. A firearm specification stacked on top of it.The couple said two men had broken into their home in Pickerington, forced them to open a safe in the basement, and left with rare comic books, jewellery and around $10,000 in cash.Police recovered none of it. There was no physical evidence, no forensics, nothing tying him to the house at all. What there was, was a photo array. The couple picked him out of it, and that was enough.He got 67 years.He spent them in the prison law library. Hours at a time, for years, reading case law and teaching himself how to fight his own conviction.It took two decades before another judge agreed to look again. When the file was reopened, what came out of it was the original handwritten police report from the night itself.The officers had arrived at a house surrounded by fresh snow. There were no footprints in it. There were no tyre tracks on the drive. A dog was barking next door as they pulled up, and the neighbours told them it had not made a sound in the past hour.One officer had written a line into the report at the time. The house, he said, had been gone through too selectively for his taste.The prosecutor declined to retry the case and dropped every charge. Ralph Blaine Smith walked out on the fourth of July, 2021, having served 21 years for a crime his own lawyer argues nobody ever committed 👀"