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3 Men Wrongfully Jailed for 36 Years Walk Free from Prison in Baltimore

HeadlineNov 26, 2019

In Baltimore, three men who were wrongfully imprisoned in 1983 have walked free from prison after spending 36 years behind bars for a crime they did not commit. Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were arrested and jailed on charges of shooting 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett in the hallway of Baltimore’s Harlem Park Junior High School, allegedly because they wanted to steal his jacket. The three African-American teenagers always maintained their innocence. Now in their fifties, the three men were released Monday after a review of the case revealed multiple errors, including the fact that the state’s attorney lied about the evidence and that the police pressured teenage witnesses.

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