74-year-old woman freed after serving 32 years for murder she did not commit

[joeybee12]

A 74-year-old woman who served 32 years for a murder she did not commit was released from jail early Tuesday after students from USC's law school convinced the district attorney to reopen her case.

On Monday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge agreed to exchange Mary Virginia Jones' first-degree murder conviction without possibility of parole for a no contest plea to voluntary manslaughter with a time-served sentence.

“Words cannot express my gratitude to God and to my fellow man,” Jones said after her release from Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood.

Jones and the students argued that her abusive boyfriend, Mose Willis, forced her to participate in the 1981 murder.

http://news.yahoo.com/74-year-old-wrongful-conviction-prison-release-151643006.html?vp=1

[Fla Dem]

1. Happy for her and her family. May the remaining years of her life be filled with happiness. nt