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Robert DuBoise spent 37 years in a Florida prison for a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit. Now, he's set to receive $14 million from the city of Tampa.

His teeth didn’t match an apparent bite mark on the victim — but he was still convicted in Florida, the lawsuit says.

The Tampa City Council has agreed to pay former prison inmate Robert DuBoise $14 million to compensate him for the 37 years he spent behind bars for a murder that he did not commit

The Tampa City Council has agreed to pay former prison inmate Robert DuBoise $14 million to compensate him for the 37 years he spent behind bars for a murder that he did not commit.

The Tampa City Council has agreed to pay former prison inmate Robert DuBoise $14 million to compensate him for the 37 years he spent behind bars for a murder that

The City of Tampa is trying to make things right with a man who served 37 years behind bars for a murder he never committed. 

Robert DuBoise sued the city after he spent 37 years in prison for a Tampa murder he did not commit.

TAMPA, Fla. — Andrew Warren, the Democratic Hillsborough County state attorney whose outspokenness led Gov. Ron DeSantis to yank him from elected office, will not run to reclaim the post

The price of freedom is pathetically low in Florida, and the cost of injustice is much too high. The going rate is $50,000 for every year people languish in prison before being exonerated for crimes they did not commit. That’s less than $6 an hour, much less than the minimum wage. The necessity for this reality is a deeply flawed system where wrongful convictions are commonplace. There have ...

"If this state is determined to have a death penalty, we should do everything in our power to ensure it is not wrongfully imposed and is constitutional when it is imposed," writes retired Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Pariente. "Instead, the state of Florida just implemented measures that I fear will do just the opposite."