Voice of Witness narrator John Stoll has received a $5 million dollar settlement for his wrongful conviction in 1985. Stoll, a narrator from Voice of Witness’s first book, Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, is also the subject of the documentary Witch Hunt. Stoll was one of dozens of people arrested in Bakersfield, California for alleged participation in child molestation rings. He had served nineteen years of his forty year child molestation conviction before the Northern California Innocence Project tracked down enough witnesses to recant their earlier testimony. Four child witnesses testified during Stoll’s new trial that they had been forced by lawyers, prosecutors and social service workers to claim Stoll molested them. To read more about Stoll’s settlement, click here.
