Our Case Files: These amazing people each endured an average of 20 years imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. Only a handful of them have received compensation for the injustice they have survived. Read their compelling stories.
Earl Berryman
Irvington, NJ
After spending 10 years in NJ's Trenton State Prison for a 1983 rape near Newark, NJ, Earl Berryman was freed in July, 1995, by Federal District Judge Dickinson Debevoise, who expressed "very substantial doubt" that Berryman had any involvement in this crime. The lead police investigator of this case told Centurion Ministries that he, too, had grave doubts about the victim's identification. This capped a five-year effort by Centurion Ministries on behalf of Berryman.
Earl works for a shipping company and he and his family are doing well.
