Priscilla Read Chenoweth, Who Won Freedom for a Stranger, Dies at 90
Priscilla Read Chenoweth, Who Won Freedom for a Stranger, Dies at 90 She spent seven years and much of her retirement savings to prove that a teenager had been wrongly convicted of murder. Priscilla Read Chenoweth in the 1980s. She later turned the study in her home into a makeshift law office, helping to exonerate a young man she was convinced had been wrongfully convicted of murder.Credit...via Chenoweth family Published March 5, 2021Updated March 9, 2021 Priscilla Read Chenoweth, a civil rights activist and lawyer who spent seven years and tens of thousands of dollars of her own money to e...
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