Black man exonerated after spending 34 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit

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61-year-old man is exonerated in 1990 Philadelphia murder

A 61-year-old man was exonerated Monday when a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge vacated his conviction in a 1990 murder, which his lawyers argued was tainted because police and prosecutors withheld evidence discrediting the only two witnesses in the case. Ronald Johnson, who was behind bars...

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61-year-old man is exonerated in 1990 Philadelphia murder
A 61-year-old man was exonerated Monday when a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge vacated his conviction in a 1990 murder, which his lawyers argued was tainted because police and prosecutors withheld evidence discrediting the only two witnesses in the case. Ronald Johnson, who was behind bars for 34 years, was released from the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County Monday night after Judge Scott DiClaudio issued his order earlier in the day and the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office moved to dismiss all charges, said Johnson's lawyers at the nonprofit public interest law firm Phillips Black. “For over three decades, Mr. Johnson and three generations of his family have fought tirelessly to prove his innocence,” the law firm posted on its website. The Conviction Integrity Unit of the District Attorney's Office said in a 29-page filing in November that the evidence in the case “undermines confidence in the outcome of Johnson's trial.”

 

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[Sonic Boom of the South]

"𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕕 𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕨𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕖."

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This should be automatic prison for them!

 

[Amo Husserl]

Ayo...

 

[Neuromancer]

Every fukking month a story like this comes out.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Damn that's sad.

But im happy hes home.

This is why im anti death penalty (for the most part)...they get i wrong all too often.

 

[KidJSoul]

Imprison those cops that withheld evidence

I'm sick and tired of seeing how many innocent people are locked up.

And the fact that it's predominantly black men getting falsely imprisoned like this is very telling.

 

[Luke Cage]

This only ever seems to happen to black folks, Meanwhile white people commit crimes and get warnings. and yet people bring up crime statistics with a straight face.
I have no doubt for every one of these there are also hundred who were innocent but just never got exonerated too.

 

[Rozay Oro]

They better break good bread with OG smh

 

[King Poetic]

No matter how many millions this man may get, he never was able to hold his mom/pops, laugh with siblings and family and if he had kids loss that connection

Meanwhile them crooked cops are enjoying retirement in Florida

fukk the police

 

[DaPresident]

Ain’t no number of millions that can make up the time he lost. That’s 34 years in the pen man.


His youth is gone, wasted, for no reason honestly

Blessings to him and his family but this is seriously messed up. Why not go after the cops who did this? You got to start sending a message but they white so the message is, “get the next one”

 

[Richard Glidewell]

Free pass.......

 

[Address_Unknown]

Spoiler: If I were him and I met them cops,judges

Bullet.
Bullet.
Bullet.

He lost too much he can't get back and nothing short of 100 mill and a life time of no taxes would ever get me to happily reconsider not throwing a grenade through their dinner windows and crashing out.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Another one. It's gotten to the point where there is 2 or 3 of these a month.

And when the innocent brehs come out, they don't last long.