In his final days at the hospital, he found peace — with knowing he was dying and with the nearly five-decade fight to clear his name, according to those close to him.
CLEVELAND, Ohio— Isaiah Andrews fought against a wrongful conviction for 45 years in prison, against the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office to clear his name for nearly two years after he was released and against cancer for a year.from esophageal cancer, almost one month after his official exoneration in the 1974 slaying of his wife.
“We’ll continue to pursue those cases,” Sidoti said. “So nothing stops. Instead of going to Isaiah, it will go to the estate that distributes the funds.” “Jail is hard. Out here was hard for us, too, but we formed kind of like a team,” Jackson said. “That’s what we did. We helped each other out. We were there for each other for whatever we needed.”
Sidoti, as his attorney, filed eight motions to get the GPS-monitoring removed from Andrews. All failed. Jackson said during the first few months after Andrews’ release, before his cancer diagnosis, Andrews felt fine and could have used that time to travel or otherwise live as a free man.