Felix Garcia is in prison for murder, his defenders say, in part because he did not want his hearing impairment to be mistaken for stupidity. Garcia, 52, is serving a life sentence for a August 1981 killing in a north Tampa motel room, the result of a drug robbery gone bad.
Despite an alibi that put him six miles away from the crime, Garcias defense suffered at trial because he read at a fourth-grade level and he didnt have a court-appointed sign language interpreter, according to his clemency attorney, Reginald Garcia.
