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Ben Spencer free after 34 years of declaring innocence in fatal robbery. Dallas prosecutors could try him again Spencer was sentenced to life in prison after Jeffrey Young was beaten to death in 1987. Ben Spencer hugs his mother, Lucille Spencer, after he was released from the Dallas County jail in Dallas on Friday, March 12, 2021. He was convicted in the 1987 deadly robbery of Jeffrey Young but has always maintained his innocence. A judge released him on bond Friday after finding he was convicted with false testimony. A higher court must review his case.(Lola Gomez) It’s been 34 years sinc...

/ 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 Spenc...

“It’s been more than a year that we haven’t been able to see him…We’re getting old. We don’t know how much time we have left.

Social distancing and other contagion protocols are difficult behind bars, but an investigation by WFAA and The Marshall Project showed that the spread of COVID-19 behind bars was also due to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's lackluster response, potentially exacerbating outbreaks and putting surrounding communities at risk. The agency's website lists the prisoners who have died from the virus. Below is a list of those people, including Campos.  Among the list are four people who officials removed from the agency's official county of coronavirus-related deaths, even though they had ...