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It was not a family member or a friend, as in many cases, who first advocated Willis' innocence, but a paralegal formerly unacquainted with Willis. Janet Gregory spent years advocating on Willis' behalf and was instrumental in his exoneration.
Nov 25, 2007 · In 2004, Andrew Corsello gave us this story of Calvin Willis, a man who spent twenty-two years in prison for a rape he did not commit. DNA evidence cleared him, but it was the work of a...
On September 18, 2003, he was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and was greeted by his family and long-time advocate, Janet Gregory. As he said shortly after his exoneration, “It feels wonderful…I waited a long time.”
Jan 15, 2010 · In the new Lifetime Movie Network film The Wronged Man, Julia Ormond plays Janet "Prissy" Gregory, a paralegal who takes the case of Calvin Willis. He's wrongfully accused of assaulting a...
Jan 15, 2010 · Back in 2004, Andrew Corsello gave us The Wronged Man, the astonishing story of Calvin Willis, a man who'd been wrongly imprisoned for 22 years, and Janet Gregory, the remarkable woman who got...
Nov 6, 2010 · Janet ''Prissy''Gregory, a paralegal took on the legal system for Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an ...
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Jan 15, 2010 · For 15 years, a paralegal named Janet "Prissy" Gregory advocated on Willis’ behalf, filing appeals for a new trial and raising money to pay for DNA testing. Gregory is played in the film by Julia Ormond.
