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    Man Imprisoned for 46 Years Walks Free After Conviction Overturned

    November 15, 2017

    A man has been released from prison nearly half a century after his lawyers say he was wrongfully convicted of a horrific crime. Wilbert Jones is now 65, but was only 19 when he was arrested in the abduction and sexual assault of a nurse in Louisiana. His family was there, overjoyed to see him walk through the prison gates 46 years later. Jones had been accused of kidnapping a nurse from a hospital parking lot at gunpoint and raping her in Baton Rouge. InsideEdition.com's Mara Montalbano (https://twitter.com/MaraMontalbano) has more.

     

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