In this January 2017, photo, Isaiah McCoy hugs one of his daughters as he walks out of Howard R. Y...
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In this January 2017, photo, Isaiah McCoy hugs one of his daughters as he walks out of Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington, Del., as a free man. Isaiah McCoy enjoyed the limelight that came with sharing his story after he left Delaware’s death row a free and exonerated man. He gave speeches to innocence projects, anti-death penalty groups and lawyers associations. Now, he’s in a federal detention center in Honolulu, where prosecutors accuse him of sex trafficking. They say McCoy forced young women into prostitution. He says he’s again accused of a crime he didn’t commit. (Doug Curran /The News Journal via AP) |
Associated Press
HONOLULU
A man who was on death row in Delaware until being retried and found not guilty of murder is back behind bars in Hawaii less than a year later.
Isaiah McCoy enjoyed the limelight that came with sharing his story after he left Delaware's death row a free and exonerated man. He gave speeches to innocence projects, anti-death penalty groups and lawyers associations.
Now, he's in a federal detention center in Honolulu, where prosecutors accuse him of sex trafficking. They say McCoy forced young women into prostitution.
McCoy spoke to The Associated Press at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center. He says he's again accused of a crime he didn't commit.
He says he'll use his knowledge of the criminal justice system to represent himself at his upcoming trial.
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