Miles’ life changed about a year after graduating from Skyline High School in Dallas. He was arrested and convicted, despite the suspect description being 6 inches taller with a darker complexion than Miles.
Richard Miles spent 15 years in prison before a judge declared him innocent of the crimes for which he was convicted."When I was first arrested I was totally fearful because I had never went through this process," Miles recalled."I was falsely imprisoned at the age of 19. I would eventually end up getting 60 years for murder and attempted murder that I had no knowledge of."
Miles' life changed about a year after graduating from Skyline High School in Dallas. He was arrested and convicted, despite the suspect description being 6 inches taller with a darker complexion than Miles. "You understand this is way bigger than you when there are so many other men in prison that are innocent," Miles said.exist. Students there review inmate cases of claimed innocence. On Monday they held an event and candlelight vigil to mark National Wrongful Conviction Recognition Day.
'When we look at case law and we start looking at the reversals and throwing out of convictions, it seems glaring. Like how did they get there? How can they make that judgment," Cheryl Wattley, Director of UNT Dallas Joyce Ann Brown Innocence Clinic and UNT Dallas School of Law Professor."It's because we have that theory; we're gonna make the facts fit that theory rather than looking at the facts and seeing what really happened.
"There's peace in innocence," Miles said."If you're innocent of doing something, then there's a peace and so I think for me personally, I covered myself in my innocence.
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