A man who was convicted and later cleared after falsely confessing to murder at 13 says he is grateful a court revived his request for compensation in Mississippi, and that others might benefit from a change in how the state handles wrongful conviction lawsuits.
“I had lost a lot of faith in Mississippi’s judicial system,” Tyler Edmonds, now 28 and living in Palm Beach, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday.
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