Inmate hopes new trial ends 13-year struggle
A lie would have freed Kevin Coleman 13 years ago. After spending a third of his life behind bars for a murder many believe he did not commit, Coleman said on Monday that if he had to do it over again he still wouldn't have accepted a plea bargain that would have set him free. He just can't bring himself to plead guilty to a murder he didn't commit. "I don't see doing nothing different than what I did," said Coleman -- a veteran of Florida's prison system at age 32. Coleman was 19 when prosecutors offered him one of the sweetest plea bargains imaginable: plead guilty to the 1991 murder of Bobby Roddy and go free with the time he had already served in jail. Coleman said no: "I know I wouldn't cop out to something I didn't do." Today, Coleman is hoping that the truth -- something his mother has told him will set him free -- will finally be heard. Coleman was convicted by all white jury
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