A federal judge found prosecutors never disclosed that they had charged his chief accuser with perjury after the trial.
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“I didn’t believe it,” Stokes said in a telephone interview. “I didn’t believe that they would let something like that happen — that they knew, and they didn’t tell me.” “She got a beautiful three-story house, so I’m not in the way,” Stokes said Thursday, the joy in his voice evident. “They used perjured evidence to convict him and then charged the perjurer, and never told him. And then Willie was warehoused for 38 years,” Diamondstein saidPhiladelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has championed about two dozen exoneration cases. A supervisor in his office, Matthew Stiegler, said Thursday the office agreed with the federal judge who found that Stokes’ constitutional rights were egregiously violated.
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