On Dec. 10, 1991, 35-year-old Rick Walker, an auto mechanic and son of a prominent East Palo Alto councilwoman, was about to be shipped to San Quentin, then Pelican Bay, having been convicted of murder. Twelve years later -- after his father had died, after his young son had become a man -- Walker was set free, thanks to a corporate lawyer and family friend who provided irrefutable evidence that Walker wasn't the killer.
Read the compelling story of how Walker was accused, convicted, and sentenced for a murder he did not commit, and how twelve years later he was exonerated, here from The San Francisco Chronicle.