Isaiah will never get these decades of his life back, but he can now live the remainder of his life a free man.”Īccording to Sidoti, the Ohio Innocence Project 'discovered that Cleveland police withheld a report that detailed how detectives investigated and arrested another man, Willie Watts, after initial evidence found at the scene implicated him. “For over four decades Isaiah Andrews has fought for justice for his wife and for his freedom,” said Andrews' attorney Marcus Sidoti, of the Friedman, Gilbert, + Gerhardstein Law Firm. That second suspect died in 2011, according to court filings in the case.Īfter serving 46 years behind bars for the crime, Isiah Andrews was released from prison last year and granted a new trial in the case. In 2019, an appeals court found prosecutors failed to disclose to defense attorneys that police initially suspected that another man stabbed Andrews' wife, Regina Andrews, to death in September 1974.
CLEVELAND - Isiah Andrews, an 83-year-old man on trial again for the murder of his wife decades ago, was found not guilty in a Cuyahoga County court Wednesday.
