The judge suspended criminal proceedings and said ... He was ordered to stop using the name William Woods. Woods said he pleaded out so the case against him would be dismissed.

The former hot dog vendor who was falsely imprisoned when he became the victim of a three-decade-long identity theft case has spoken ... that locked him up. William Woods spent 428 days in jail ...

Now, a Los Angeles Times story provides an account of how William Woods, the California man Keirans posed as, fought for years to convince authorities he was the real victim in the case ― and ...