Former football player Aaron Salter spent 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit,reports Fox 2 Detroit. For the first time since his wrongful conviction in 2003, he celebrated his birthday as a free man as he walked out of Chippewa Correctional Facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Wednesday.
On Friday, and Salter commented,“I just judge that birthday present I got made up for everything. I’m going to be the best person I can be with my second chance.The 6’3″ 250-pound former football player was sentenced to life in prison after an eyewitness reported seeing “a lean man” pull the trigger during a fatal shooting. Although Salter, who was a University of Arkansas defensive linebacker at the time, or did not fit the description,he was convicted of first-degree murder.
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Source: inquisitr.com