Until last month, Darrell Hall was the only prison inmate from Georgia's most populous county serving a life sentence for a drug offense, according to the Fulton County district attorney
Now, after nearly two decades behind bars, Hall is free — and weighing a job prospect from a Hollywood powerhouse that could recast the rest of his life, District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said Thursday in a news release. "In addition to his freedom, Tyler Perry Studios and Mr. Tyler Perry agreed to offer Hall a job so he can rebuild his life and move forward as a productive citizen of Fulton County," Howard's office said in the statement.
King or to exonerate him," Howard said at a reception Wednesday night to officially launch the program."Those days of prosecutorial neglect, at least here in Fulton County, those days are over."Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young suggested the unit take a fresh look at the case of Jamil Al-Amin, a former Black Panther who was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison for killing a deputy sheriff and wounding another officer as they tried to serve an arrest warrant on him.
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