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Sealed Evidence Kept Three Black Men Behind Bars for 36 Years

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Nov 26, 2019
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Three black men were released from a Baltimore prison on November 25, after each spending 36 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit.

Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart walked free Monday, fully exonerated of the 1983 murder of DeWitt Duckett, a ninth-grade student at Harlem Park Junior High School, over a Georgetown University…

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