‘America’s Got Talent’ Contestant Archie Williams Was Wrongfully Incarcerated for 37 Years

With the assistance of the Innocence Venture New Orleans (which labored with the nationwide Innocence Venture group), attorneys fought for Archie. Vanessa Potkin, one among Williams’ attorneys said that he “by no means gave up combating” after he was “instructed by the authorized system that he would die in jail” when he was simply 22 years outdated. She added, “He has an unimaginable spirit and music helped carry him via what none of us might think about. So far as we’re involved, the second Archie stepped foot on the [AGT] stage, he already gained — he personifies the triumph of the human spirit.”