The Florida attorney general’s office reversed course Saturday, announcing it was wrong to deny reparations to a Jacksonville man wrongfully convicted of murder.
The Office of Attorney General had previously a denied a petition to compensate Nathan Myers, who spent 43 years in prison for a murder Jacksonville prosecutors said he didn’t commit.
Substantial evidence showed Nathan Myers and his uncle spent nearly 43 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit, according to the Jacksonville State Attorney’s Office conviction integrity review unit.
An independent panel agreed. So did State Attorney Melissa Nelson, Circuit Judge Angela Cox, Circuit Judge Meredith Charbula, a Florida Senate special master and a Florida House special master.
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This post was updated with the attorney general's reversal on Monday, Feb. 17.
