From death row to 30 years jail life, these blacks were wrongfully incarcerated

Carlos Weeks 

He was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for a murder he did not commit as a result of false testimony.

Weeks gained his freedom after the witness in his trial recanted her statement and admitted she lied.

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Weeks was convicted for the 1993 shooting and murder of 21-year-old Frank Davis outside the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He also faced an additional charge of injuring a 10-year-old girl in the alleged incident.

During his trial, two sisters, Lorraine and Carmella Taylor, testified they saw Weeks committing the crime from the window of their 12th-floor apartment.

But investigations by the DA’s Conviction Review Unit found the two witnesses not credible and moved to vacate the case.