Man imprisoned 45 years for wife's killing is acquitted by Cleveland jury: "I've become free"
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A jury acquitted an 83-year-old man Wednesday who was convicted at his first trial of killing his wife and spent 45 years in prison. The Cleveland jury deliberated for less than 90 minutes before delivering its verdict in Isaiah Andrews' second aggravated murder trial, according to the Ohio Innocence Project, which represented him.
Andrews said after the verdict that it "relieved all the weight off" him. "I've become free," he said.
"At close to 46 years, Isaiah's time served stands as the second-longest known wrongful incarceration in U.S. history," the Ohio Innocence Project said.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.