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(MSC News)--A Jefferson County man, sentenced to life in prison in connection with the death of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, has been given a new hope for freedom.
That comes as the not-for-profit Midwest Innocence Project, in partnership with the Paul E. Wilson Project for Innocence at the University of Kansas School of Law, takes up the case of Floyd Bledsoe.
WIBW is reporting that the organization announced Tuesday that attorneys for Bledsoe filed a motion in Jefferson County District Court to vacate his first-degree murder conviction and release him from custody.
The TV station reports that an attorney for Bledsoe, who was sentenced 15-years ago, says her client was convicted despite no physical evidence and a full account of his whereabouts. Additionally, attorney Alice Craig says DNA testing now establishes Bledsoe's innocence in the death of Camille Arfmann.
The Innocence Project is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the investigation, litigation and exoneration of those who are wrongfully convicted in the five-state region of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, and Arkansas.
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