Inmate Freed After Serving 25 Years Of Faulty Sentence
POSTED: 4:49 pm EDT April 7, 2006
UPDATED: 5:09 pm EDT April 7, 2006
TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida man walked out of prison and into his mother's arms Friday after spending too many years behind bars.
Leonard Brown, 47, spent more than half his life in jail because a judge gave him 99 years for a robbery that should have carried a 15-year term. A fellow inmate with a little law experience found the mistake in Brown's file in 2005 and helped him get it into court.
Outside the prison gates, Brown thanked God and his mother for sticking by him all these years. Elizabeth Brown, 73, had driven all over the state to visit her son almost every week of his imprisonment.
The judge who sentenced Brown committed suicide several years ago while the government was investigating his court records and personal finances.
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