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8A«)«)0 NEWSAIPIie Cf)ar(otte $o0t Thursday, January 4, 2007 Wronglv impiisioned inmate finallv free Continued from page 3A the. next 39 years, Lomax faced countless struggles and hardships and had to live with the fact that this was not only affecting him, but his family as well. “My position has always been taking the stigma off my family,” said Lomax.”They [his family) knew that I didn’t do it, but they had to live with it all these years. So even if I was released, I would contin ue to struggle.” After years of claiming innocence and four recom mendations for parole, Lomax’s case was finally reopened when Circuit Judge Gale E. Rasin saw the evi dent racial discrimination that took place during the original trial. "In the interest of justice,” Judge Rasin reopened Lomax’s case and ultimately overturned his life prison term and re-sentenced him to time served. Upon entering prison, Lomax faced many difficul ties that made the transition from life as a free man to one of an institutionalized one hard. “The first ten ye£irs were somewhat difficult because I was angry and bit ter about it. After that 1 just realized that I had to struggle to get out,” said Lomax. Lomax, having dropped out of high school earlier in his life, faced many hardships. Having a lack of basic read ing and writing skills back then, he reflects on the events that had transpired in his life and the changes that could have been made during the trial. "When I went into prison, 1 was basically functionally illiterate...Which ^s primarily responsible for me not being able to participate in the trial,” said Lomax. Prior to his ordeal, Lomax had faith in the criminal jus tice system and believed that justice would come to him because he was innocent of the crime, but the outcome would be much different. “I thought that, OK [I] did n’t do it, and they would find it out or they would find out who did it,” said Lomax. During Lomax’s trial, an all-white jury found him guilty after five white eye wit nesses identified him as the shooter. Despite claims of innocence and physical con strictions that would have made it nigh impossible for him to commit the crimes, he was foimd guilty. Two weeks prior to the rob bery and murder of Brewer, Lomax received severe injuries sustained by an assault while he was escort ing his two younger sisters to a party. The resulting effect was that Lomax had to wear a long thick cast on his wrist and arm due to a stab woimd he received from the beating, a fact that all five eye wit nesses failed to note when they fingered Lomax as the killer. During the time of the mur der Lomax, who said he had no idea where the store was then or now, was at his sis ter’s house recovering fix)m the injuries and he recalls the seriousness of his physical state at that time. "Because of the severity of the injuries, I mean the hand injury in and of itself was severe, but my knees were scraped and busted and my ribs were severely cracked. I was in pretty bad shape. I was physically incapable of coming out.” Upon hearing Lomax’s story and realizing the incon sistencies, Steve Delaney and Jim McColskey of Centurion Ministries, a New Jersey nonprofit geared at helping people they feel are wrongly convicted gain their freedom, got involved. 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