From Friend to Detective: How Carl King’s Tenacity Led to the Exoneration of Colin Warner

On April 11, 1980, Colin Warner was arrested in Brooklyn for murder. All the evidence was stacked up against him, including two eyewitnesses who said they saw Warner at the scene. Warner, however, swore that he was innocent. No jurors believed him. He was convicted two years later. Warner was not the only one who believed he was innocent, despite his conviction. Carl King, an immigrant from Trinidad and a close friend of Warner, thought he was falsely convicted. Twenty years later, King was still trying to get his friend out of prison. He hired a lawyer and tried to get another appeal together. With the lost appeals, King decided to try a different approach to prove Warner’s innocence — by investigating the case on his own. He would do so with no prior experience. <a href="https://medium.com/@jacoblreich/from-friend-to-detective-how-carl-kings-tenacity-led-to-the-exoneration-of-colin-warner-5388cac2604d?source=tag_recommended_feed---------216-85----------new_york_city----------89485a88_c63e_4a93_b9f4_7f003e29ac7a-------">Website</a>