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November 26, 2019

3 Men Wrongfully Jailed for 36 Years Walk Free from Prison in Baltimore
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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 De Witt
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 50s, 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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