Rapper Mystikal speaks on dropped rape charge ksla.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksla.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SHREVEPORT, La. - In recent months, changes have taken place within the U.S. Supreme Court and the Louisiana Supreme Court to revisit cases where criminal court punishments are considered excessive.Â
âIf it werenât for the Innocence Project of New Orleans (IPNO), I would still be in there you know,â said Fate Winslow of Shreveport. âWe have this thing we say in Louisiana, âNo money. No justice.â I didnât have any money and there was no way I was going to get it. They stepped up and helped me.âÂ
Just one month ago, Winslow was behind bars in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Winslow was sentenced to serve a life sentence there because of his felony convictions.
SHREVEPORT, La. - In recent months, changes have taken place within the U.S. Supreme Court and the Louisiana Supreme Court to revisit cases where criminal court punishments are considered excessive.
Fate Winslow has been released from prison after serving 12 years for selling US$20 worth of weed to an undercover cop “I just want to go get my kids and grandkids and try to make some memories with the time that I have left on this earth.”
Author of the article: Sam Riches
Publishing date: Dec 17, 2020 • December 18, 2020 • 4 minute read Twelve years are gone that I can never get back, but today redemption has come, Winslow told Yahoo. / Photo by IPNO Twitter
Article content
Unhoused and hungry, Fate Winslow was approached in 2008 by an undercover cop who said he was looking to buy US$20 worth of pot.