A man in Milwaukee was convicted of murdering a 77-year-old woman and served 27 years largely thanks to a star witness who claimed to have seen the entire thing. Now the star witness, serving time for an unrelated crime and having time to sit with guilt, finally revealed that she was the one who actually committed the crime.
The man, Bryan Hooper Jr., has since been released. The common description of justice has always been that it’s blind. As Aaron Spencer recently discovered when he decided to do everything it took to protect his family — justice is not about who’s right or even what happened; it’s about what you can prove
