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The man who has been the voice and face of the wrongfully convicted in Florida finds himself behind bars tonight. Alan Crotzer spent 24 and a half years in prison for a rape which DNA proved he didn’t commit. Tonight, as Mike Vasilinda tells us. Crotzer is accused of firing a gun into a car in an alleged dispute over a CD.

Alan Crotzer kept track of every day he spent in prison.

“24 years, 6 months, 13 days, and 4 hours.”

Since being proven innocent, Crotzer has worked to keep kids on the straight and narrow. As a volunteer for the Innocence Project, he has been an outspoken critic of eyewitness identifications.

“I’m trying to raise awareness that the system is failing at a large rate, really fast,” Crotzer said in May of this year.

Now Crotzer is accused of firing eight shots into a moving car this past Sunday evening while driving on this four lane highway in view of the state capitol. The argument was apparently over a CD.

Crotzer was here Monday night meeting with his attorney when a team that included a federal marshall, showed up to arrest him.

A woman who appeared at the door of his condo told us there was no story to tell.

Most who know Crotzer say the charges are inconsistent with the Alan they know.

“There’s no evidence that he harbored any bitterness, bitterness based on the 24-and-a-half years of his life that essentially were stolen from him,” Human Rights activist Mark Shlakman said.

Lawyer Tom Powell says there is irony in Crotzer being picked out of a photo lineup as the perpetrator.

“I now understand what the allegation is,” Powell said. “It’s bizarre on its face. It’s inconsistent with the Alan that I’ve known for the last year or so.”

There is no mention of a gun being recovered in the probable cause paperwork. Crotzer is being held without bond on attempted murder charges.