"If you keep hatred and bitterness in your heart, it just steals your joy from everything else."
-- Robert Duboise
Robert Duboise is free.
A day after the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office said that new evidence exonerated him in a 1983 Tampa murder, Duboise stepped past the razor wire gates of Hardee Correctional Institution to embark on life after prison.
His mother and sister were there to greet him. So was one of the lawyers who worked to secure his release.
What’s the first thing he wants to do now?
“I did it,” Duboise said. “I hugged my mom.”
A judge cleared the way Thursday morning for Duboise to be released from the state prison.
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