I think it is good to keep that in mind that he may have been unjustly imprisoned, but it is also true that if you go deeper than the sympathetic article and read UNITED STATES vs. PAIGE, the “falsely accused” doesn’t sound so convincing.
If you accept that she changed her story three times, once when it happened, once when it went to retrial, and once when it went to appeal, and you recognize that kind of neighborhood would have people who not only threaten you and your children, but have a documented history of following through, that fact that her story changes is not surprising at all.
And then his friends who all swear he was with them, and his fellow defendant saying he was on medication at the time and forced into it by his lawyer...
I think it is also wise to consider he might well be guilty. He hung out with a bad crowd. There are consequences to that, and one of them is that you could be swept up in their doings.
“she changed her story three times”
So which version was true?
IMO - if the testimony of this witness was the only evidence used to convict a man “presumed to be innocent”, then justice was not served.