- Jonathan Fleming spentnearly 25 years in prison

for a crime he didn't commit.

Thanks to attorneys takinga closer look at his case

Fleming was released andnow wants to help others

who have also been wrongfully convicted.

In 1989 jurors convictedFleming of second degree murder

in the death of a New York drug dealer.

Fleming, who also solddrugs and knew the man,

says he had a solid alibi.

- I happened to be inFlorida with my family

at the time when my friend was killed.

I took my oldest son to Orlando,Florida for his birthday,

for his ninth birthday.

- [Charlene] Prosecutors arguedFleming could have returned

to Brooklyn to commit the crime.

They also produced a witness who testified

seeing Fleming pull the trigger.

- She said that she actuallyseen me do this murder

and I know for a fact, I'vesaid myself that it's not true

because I wasn't evenin New York on that day.

- [Charlene] Fleminghowever was found guilty

and spent the next 24 yearsof his life behind bars.

- Prison was really rough.

I was in prison for something I didn't do,

so I did start getting in a lot of trouble

but I was very angry.

- [Charlene] And that anger consumed him

until an experience at a church service.

- And I don't rememberwhat the word that day was

but I found myself standingup and I walked forward

and I turned my life over to God.

- [Charlene] A spiritualtransformation that answered

long time prayers for his ex wife.

- And I just listened tohim go on and on and on

about what the pastor hadpreached and how he's found

hiself getting up andgoing towards the altar,

and yeah, this just feels so good

and I don't know what I'mfeeling but I'm excited, Trish.

I'm excited and I waslike God is just awesome.

- [Charlene] Fleming spent years

trying to prove his innocence

and a break finally came when Brooklyn's

Conviction Review Unit took his case.

Attorney's found evidence proving Fleming

could not have been in NewYork at the time of the murder.

Information authorities never turned over

to his defense team.

- We were able to discover a document,

a receipt which had beentaken from Mr. Fleming

at the time of his arrest.

That of course meant thatthe eyewitness testimony

that had been produced in that case

to the effect of aneyewitness saying they saw

Mr. Fleming commit theshooting homicide was false.

- [Charlene] These investigative teams,

also known as Integrity Review Units,

are spreading across the country

and in 2018 alonestatistics show they helped

free 58 wrongfully convicted people.

- There were probably less than 20

such units around the country.

Since that time, and thesuccess that we had initially

and continue to have with regard

to our Conviction Review Unit,

that number has more thandoubled to the point where

we have more than 40 suchunits around the country.

- [Charlene] A new teamin Georgia helped free

Darrell Hall sentencedto life for possessing

two grams of cocaine in 1991.

Media mogul Tyler Perry recently gave him

a job at his Atlanta studios.

- He said he was havingtrouble getting a job.

I was like well, lookaround, we got lots of room

around here, come on, let's go to work.

It just shows you the level ofhow if you're poor and black

and disenfranchised, howyou don't even have a chance

at justice in most cases.

- [Charlene] In Fleming's case,

justice arrived on April 8, 2014.

- It was like my lifestarting all over again.

I was so happy.

And the judge said your case is dismissed,

and the first thing I did,

I turned around and Iwent right to my mother.

- While Fleming is grateful for the work

of attorneys and investigators,

he says the real credit goes to God.

- He released me anddelivered me when He felt

that I was ready, butit wasn't until I turned

my life over to Him thatthings started happening.

- [Charlene] That includes letting go

of anger towards those responsible

for robbing him of nearly25 years of his life.

- I was able to forgivebecause He forgave me

for the things that I've done.

- [Charlene] Meanwhilethe state of New York

awarded Fleming six million dollars

for his wrongful incarceration,

something he hopes to use to help others

through the Jonathan Fleming Foundation.

- When I came home I had no housing,

I had to stay with my cousinfor the first eight months.

When I came home I didn't have nothing.

I want to help people when they come home,

try to provide them withhomes, places to stay,

places that they can goto when they are released

because a lot of timeswe're just pushed out

with nowhere to go.

Charlene Aaron, CBN News,Raleigh, North Carolina.