recantation

But by her reckoning, the system has — belatedly — gotten a few things right: Last year, after reviewing a copy of the recantation, the state released Duran on parole.

Prosecutors had opposed Franklin’s petition, arguing that the recantation by the witness wasn’t credible.

“The record will ultimately acquit Mr. Adams based on Mr. Jason Autry’s complete and total recantation,” one of the petitions says.

In later years Rushdie called this recantation the “biggest mistake of my life.”

In a retrial, the prosecution maintained that the murders had been revenge for the killing of a Black tavern owner, and the witness who had originally placed an armed Mr. Carter at the scene recanted his recantation.