Faith...

 Archie Williams and Innocence Project Co-Founder Barry Scheck moments after his exoneration on March 21, 2019. Photo courtesy of Innocence Project of New Orleans.

Four decades after the attack on Dec. 9, 1982, when a woman was raped and stabbed in her home in Baton Rouge, La. A different man, Archie Williams, went to prison, even though it was known at the trial that the fingerprints were not his.  

A technician in a crime lab ran the fingerprints collected at the scene of a rape through a national database and established a match with someone else.  

With the help of the innocence project, Mr. Williams was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary after serving 36 years.  

Mr. Williams said, the prison called Angola, was a tough place but that he had remained hopeful through his Christian faith.  

Mr. Williams said he bore no grudge against the victim for wrongly identifying him at the trial 36 years ago. “I want to soak it all in,” he said. “I want to go to college.”