17 years behind bars
Obie Anthony at his Apple Valley home. The money from his settlement with the city “will never make up for it,” he said of his time behind bars.
Obie Anthony’s 1994 murder conviction was overturned after he spent nearly 17 years behind bars. His wrongful-imprisonment lawsuit and other court documents portray an investigation and prosecution rife with problems — including the withholding of potentially exculpatory evidence, perjured testimony and the ignoring of leads that pointed to a different suspect.
