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.

Mississippi allows up to $50,000 for every year someone is imprisoned after a wrongful conviction. People must sue the state for the compensation. The state attorney general's office says money has been paid to 34 people, one of whom was compensated for two wrongful convictions.