/ Benjamine Spencer was 22 years old in 1987 when he was arrested for murder. He was newly married, and expecting his first child. A Dallas man who maintains he was wrongfully convicted in a deadly robbery decades ago may soon be freed. Witnesses said they saw Benjamine Spencer on the 1987 night Jeffrey Young was robbed and beaten, his body dumped on a street in West Dallas. Attorney Cheryl Wattley says these eyewitness accounts were shoddy. “One witness claimed, at a distance of 297 feet — that’s a football field — at 10 o’clock at night, on a night with no moon, he saw Ben Spencer and recognized him by his face," Wattley said. "That’s physically impossible.”