A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting, identified the man as Leonard Allen Cure, 53.Cure had been represented in his exoneration case by the Innocence Project of Florida. The group's executive director, Seth Miller, said he was devastated by news of the death, which he heard from Cure's family.'I can only imagine what it's like to know your son is innocent and watch him be sentenced to life in prison, to be exonerated and ...
'Even when they're free, they always struggled with the concern, the fear that they'll be convicted and incarcerated again for something they didn't do,' he said.Cure was convicted of the 2003 armed robbery of a drug store in Florida's Dania Beach. His conviction came from a second jury after the first one deadlocked. Cure was sentenced to life in prison because he had previous convictions for robbery and other crimes.
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