Lawyer: Freedom sweet for man wrongfully convicted in 1974

BATON ROUGE, La. — Nearly 50 years after he was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse, a Louisiana man walked out of prison on Wednesday, his life sentence and conviction overturned by a judge who said the case against him was "weak at best."Authorities withheld evidence decades ago that could have exonerated Wilbert Jones, now 65, State District Judge Richard Anderson said.Jones thanked God for the freedom, and his loyal family for never giving up hope. He also hugged his legal t