Maryland: three men exonerated after serving 36 years for murder of teenager

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/25/maryland-men-exonerated-murder-36-years

Associated Press
Mon 25 Nov 2019 18.13 EST

https://apnews.com/b908f9b1048146a9beb095c2fb81a5ca

Three men incarcerated for 36 years in Maryland were exonerated on Monday in the killing of a Baltimore teenager, after a review of their case.

Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were expected to be released from prison hours after a judge cleared their convictions and prosecutors dropped the charges. They were teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison in 1984.

“On behalf of the criminal justice system, and I’m sure this means very little to you gentlemen, I’m going to apologize,” the circuit court judge Charles Peters told the men, the Baltimore Sun reported.

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