Wrongful Imprisonment

Robert DuBoise was 18 when he was arrested and charged with the 1983 rape and slaying of Barbara Grams. Almost 40 years later, DNA tests revealed the real killers, who were part of a spree of murders.

The Tampa City Council has agreed to pay former prison inmate Robert DuBoise $14 million to compensate him for the 37 years he spent behind bars for a murder that he did not commit.

Robert DuBoise was freed in 2020 after DNA evidence cleared him in the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Tampa.

Commissioners in a Florida county are backing a plan to build a memorial to four young black men accused of raping a white woman in a 1949 case now seen…