A Cleveland man who was wrongfully convicted and spent 15 years in prison fighting to clear his name, is now focused on helping others fighting for justice.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -
Sutton’s story reads like a movie script, a teenager wrongly accused who spends more than a decade behind bars before his name is cleared with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project and others. Now, he’s a motivational speaker, reliving his personal nightmare with the justice system, hoping he can help others, whether it’s mother’s, teens or those wrongfully accused.
Ohio has a rate of wrongful convictions higher than any other state. The National Registry of Exonerations has a list of at least 83 people who were wrongfully convicted in Ohio since 1989, some men even sat on death row.
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