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One person is dead and three others were injured following a two-vehicle crash in Gregg County.

MIAMI — A judge in Miami on Wednesday vacated the life sentence of a 55-year-old Black man who prosecutors said was wrongfully convicted because of mistaken identity in 1991.

Thomas Raynard “Jay” James, now a free man after serving decades behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, looks toward the future with hope.

On Wednesday, a judge in Miami vacated the life sentence of Thomas "Jay" Raynard James, a 55-year-old Black man who prosecutors said was wrongfully convicted because of mistaken identity in 1991. As he left a Miami courtroom with his attorneys and family members, James said: "I feel good. Real good." Still wearing his red prison uniform and shackles, James stood behind his mother, Doris Strong, earlier in the day as Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle detailed a 90-page motion her office filed asking for the conviction to be vacated. James, who was 23 when ...

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