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Sep 28, 2016 · After serving 10 years of a 40 year prison sentence for an Indiana armed robbery and attempted murder, Keith Cooper was freed when eyewitnesses recanted their testimony against him, new DNA evidence showed he wasn’t at the scene of the crime, and a jailhouse informant admitted that he lied to investigators.
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
Dec 5, 2015 · Cooper had kept one pair of tan pants and a tan shirt under his prison mattress, saving them for the day he’d be free. On April 27, 2006 — after almost 10 years in prison — he put on his tan ...
- Kristine Guerra
- A Long, Ongoing Battle
- 'I Want to Do So Much'
- 'There's A Lot of Keith Coopers'
Cooper's nightmares still visit him. A violent film, a movie about prisons, or even the stress of daily life — like when they're behind on their bills — usually triggers one of his bad nights. They come and go, he said, but he gets through them. His wife said she tries to talk to him in his sleep to calm him down and make sure he doesn't become agg...
The day of his 2017 pardon, which expunged the armed robbery conviction, was one of his happiest. "I knew right then and there, my life is going to change for the better." But the past four years have been not so unlike the previous decade. More years of waiting in legal limbo. More years while his family struggles financially. Cooper quit his job ...
"I was innocent, just like ya'll are," Cooper tolda packed room of University of Notre Dame law students in 2017. Several students stood in the aisle and in the back of the room. A few clasped their hands in front of their face as they listened to Cooper's story. "You could hear a pin drop," said Gurule, the Notre Dame law professor and Exoneration...
Feb 9, 2017 · Cooper was found innocent of the purse snatching, but convicted of armed robbery. He spent the next 10 years of his life behind bars for a crime he never committed. In 2006, he was finally released from prison after DNA evidence and witness statements proved his innocence.
May 30, 2022 · In May 2022, Keith Cooper announced a record-breaking $7,500,000 settlement with the City of Elkhart, Indiana and former Elkhart, Indiana officers for Mr. Cooper’s wrongful incarceration in maximum security prison for more than seven years for crimes he didn’t commit.
May 8, 2022 · It would be easy to look at the $7.5 million settlement announced last week by Keith Cooper as a measure of justice — finally — for the man wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery in Elkhart.
Feb 9, 2017 · After serving 10 years of a 40-year prison sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder, Keith Cooper, 46, was freed when eyewitnesses recanted their testimony against him, new DNA evidence showed he wasn’t at the scene of the crime, and a jailhouse informant admitted that he lied to investigators.
