A judge in Lake County will hold a hearing today on whether to posthumously clear the names of the Groveland Four.
The young Black men were wrongly prosecuted -- and two of them were shot to death -- following the alleged rape of a 17-year-old white girl in 1949.
For some perspective on this case, WMFE's Joe Byrnes spoke with Gilbert King, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Devil in the Grove" brought the story to national attention again.
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