![]() ![]() This year, the office’s civil rights division, started by current District Attorney Jason Williams, opened an investigation into the victim’s case, found that the evidence corroborated her account and asked the court for rectification. From prison, Brown filed multiple petitions for his case to be reviewed. ![]() In the last 20 years, Brown’s stepdaughter insisted he did not rape her, and repeatedly asked the district attorney’s office under former administrations to review the case and prosecute the actual perpetrator, the office has said. When Patrick Brown walked out of a New Orleans courthouse last week a free man after spending 29 years in prison for a rape that even the victim says he didn’t commit, he raised his hands toward the sky – it was a moment of triumph.īut as he works to reconnect with his family and make a life for himself in an unfamiliar world after decades struggling for his freedom, he’s realizing his fight isn’t over just yet.īrown was convicted of raping his 6-year-old stepdaughter in 1994 after pleading not guilty in a trial in which the victim did not testify, according to the Orleans Parish district attorney’s office. ![]()
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