Miami judge vacates life sentence of Thomas Raynard James, man wrongfully convicted of murder because of mistaken identity in 1991

A judge in Miami on Wednesday vacated the life sentence of a 55-year-old Black man who prosecutors said was wrongfully convicted because of mistaken identity in 1991. CBS Miami reports Thomas Raynard James is now a free man.

"I feel good. Real good," James said Wednesday as he left a Miami courtroom with his attorneys and family members.

James was convicted in 1991 of the 1990 death of Francis McKinnon, largely on the identification by an eyewitness who told jurors she watched him gun down her stepfather during a robbery in his Coconut Grove apartment.