Michael Anthony Green is expected to be freed this week after serving more than 27 years in prison — the longest time behind bars of any Texan who has been exonerated – for a rape prosecutors now say he did not commit.
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If freed, Green would be the eighth local man let out of prison in recent years, and the second in a week, after serving time for a crime he did not commit.
“He is innocent,” Wicoff said. “We’ve got the bad guys, too. We’ve pegged the bad guys.”
Green was sentenced to 75 years in prison for the 1983 rape of a Houston woman based on faulty eyewitness identification, Wicoff said.
According to court records, a woman talking on a pay phone with her husband was abducted at gunpoint by two men at a Greenspoint-area gas station after midnight on April 18, 1983. They forced her into a car with two other men. Her abductors drove the victim to a secluded area, where three of them sexually assaulted her. The fourth man did not participate.
Wicoff credited attorneys and investigators in the Post Conviction Review Section of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office with finding a pair of jeans stored in a warehouse that had been worn by the victim during the crime, then testing it for DNA evidence. The results excluded Green.
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