‘I was an Innocent Man’: 53-Year-Old New Orleans Man Finally Freed from Prison after 36 Years In Prison for Crime He Didn’t Commit

Sullivan Walter, 53, of New Orleans, Louisiana was wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not commit at 17 years old, making him the fifth-longest incarceration of any juvenile in the United States. He was recently released from prison after 36 years behind bars — the fifth-longest wrongful incarceration of any juvenile in the United States — thanks to key evidence his lawyers say was in plain sight from the start.