Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m

Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now get justice'

A Tampa, Florida, man who has been authorized to receive $14m for spending nearly four decades in prison over a rape and murder which he did not commit says he hopes his case makes it easier for the unjustly convicted to achieve justice before it's too late for them.

I'm just grateful," Robert DuBoise told the New York Times of the compensation that Tampa's city council voted to pay him to settle a lawsuit over his wrongful conviction. He said he hoped others in his position now get justice and can move on without having to spend the rest of their life fighting the system that has already wronged them".