Exonerated US man buys his mom a home after she sold hers for legal bills

Kelley told the American-Statesman that he then used some of that settlement money to buy a 1.3-acre piece of property for his mother in January.

Her new tract of land includes a mobile home that he is renovating, along with a pasture and two Spanish goats.

According to Kelley, he brought his mother to the property while making her think that he just wanted her to look at some land that he was possibly investing in. Then, after they looked around, he told her the property actually belonged to her.

Greg Kelley, for his part, stands among more than 3,200 people in the US since 1989 who were convicted of crimes and then were exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.

However, nothing mattered more to him than getting his mom a new home.