Donald Kincaid, Baltimore, Maryland: Arrested as teens, 3 men to be exonerated after 36 years

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    Account of 3 teens who spent 36 years in prison after they were falsely arrested & convicted thanks to Baltimore homicide detective Donald Kincaid:


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    Three men wrongfully convicted, who subsequently spent 36 years in prison


    Arrested as teens, three men are set to be exonerated after 36 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction


    The death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett was historically horrible. Walking down the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, he was accosted and shot for his Georgetown University jacket. He was the first student ever killed in a Baltimore school. The pressure to solve the case was intense, and early on Thanksgiving Day, Baltimore police arrested three teenagers from another school who were charged, as adults, with murder. Several months later, all three were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. All three insisted they were innocent. Gradually, as the decades passed, two of the men ...


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    After 36 Years Behind Bars, Men Likely Cleared In Teen's Death

    Three Maryland men who were arrested as teenagers and convicted of the 1983 shooting death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett are expected to be exonerated after serving 36 years in prison. According to a report, state prosecutors will ask a judge Monday to grant writs of actual innocence for Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart, who were arrested in connection with the crime on Thanksgiving Day 1983 and later convicted and sentenced to life in prison. The three men were arrested in connection with the death of Duckett, who was attacked and shot at a Baltimore middle school for his ...


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    Arrested as teens, three men exonerated after 36 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction

    In the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, DeWitt Duckett, 14, was shot and killed for his Georgetown University jacket. The attack was shocking— the first killing in a Baltimore city school. And the pressure to solve the case was intense. Early on Thanksgiving Day that year, police arrested three teenagers who were eventually convicted of murder. On Monday, 36 years after the trio began serving life sentences, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Charles Peters declared them innocent. "On behalf of the criminal justice system, and I'm sure this means very little to you, I'm going ...


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    "Going To Apologize": US Judge On Freeing 3 Innocent Men After 36 Years

    The death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett was historically horrible. Walking down the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, he was accosted and shot for his Georgetown University jacket. He was the first student ever killed in a Baltimore school. The pressure to solve the case was intense, and early on Thanksgiving Day, Baltimore police arrested three teenagers from another school who were charged, as adults, with murder. Several months later, all three were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. All three insisted they were innocent. Gradually, as the decades passed, two of the men ...


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    Wrongful conviction: 3 Baltimore men freed after spending 36 years in prison for teen's murder

    Three Baltimore men who spent 36 years in prison were released Monday after authorities say they were falsely convicted of a 1983 murder. Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were granted a writ of innocence after being convicted of first-degree murder of a middle school student, DeWitt Duckett. "That was hell," Chestnut said of his experience in jail. "That was miserable." Chestnut and Watkins were 16 at the time of their arrest and Stewart was 17. The men are now in their early fifties preparing to enter adulthood on the outside for the first time. At least two have ...


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    3 Baltimore Men Exonerated After 36 Years Behind Bars For Wrongful Murder Conviction

    Almost 36 years to the exact day three Baltimore teens were arrested in 1983 and convicted of murder, they are now free. On Monday (Nov. 25), a Baltimore judge apologized to the men -- Alfred Chestnut, now 52, Ransom Watkins, and Andrew Stewart -- “on behalf of the criminal justice system,” the Washington Post reports. “I’m sure this means very little to you, I’m going to apologize,” Baltimore Circuit Court The men were wrongfully convicted of murdering 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett, who was shot and killed for his Georgetown University Jacket at Harlem Park Junior High School in November 1983, the ...


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