A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday vacated the conviction of William Woods, who spent nearly two years locked up — including a stint in a psychiatric hospital — for a crime he did not commit. Woods had pleaded no contest to identity theft and false impersonation in 2019, despite trying to convince authorities he was the real Woods and someone else had stolen his identity. Last week, the man who stole Woods' identity — Matthew David Keirans — pleaded guilty to making a false statement... Read this story
