Will This Be Alan Crotzer's Year?

Central Florida News, Tuesday, January 01, 2008 -- The new year brought new hope for Alan Crotzer. The former St. Petersburg man was locked up for more than two decades for a crime he did not commit.

DNA testing helped secure his freedom, but he said he wants more.

Only a couple of years before, Crotzer was still serving a life sentence for double rape, until from the bowels of a Hillsborough County government building came his ticket home: Old DNA evidence, resounding proof he was innocent.

"If you didn't do it, you didn't do it, and for me, to be held accountable for a court upsetting my life -- I went in there at 20, and I came out at 45 years old, and to sit here and talk to you, I'm blessed, but there are those that are going to die in there," Crotzer said.

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