Phillip Bivens and The Innocence Project

           Phillip Bivens, a man from Mississippi, served three decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Bivens was wrongly convicted, of the murder and rape of a woman on May 4^th 1979, based on a false confession. Bivens along with two other convicted men had the charges dropped against them when DNA evidence found that another man was guilty of the crime.

                Although the only witness to the crime was the victim’s four-year old son, who consistently stated that it was a single man who hurt his mother, three men were convicted of the crime after two of them falsely confessed. It was the Innocence Project New Orleans reopened the case and obtained the DNA that eventually proved to match another Mississippi who had been convicted of a similar case. The three men were all proven innocent and exonerated. However before Bivens was able to be completely exonerated, he died of lung cancer that spread to his brain.

                It is so saddening and aggravating to hear about stories such as the one of Phillip Bivens. He died before her was completely exonerated. He was forced to spend most of his life in a prison for something he didn't do. It is so frustrating that basically all of the evidence against him was completely fabricated. It’s crazy to think about the family member of Bivens and the other falsely convicted people and how I would feel if this happened to me.