Maryland: Men who wrongly served 36 years for murder sue Baltimore police, homicide detectives...

3 Baltimore detectives named:

• Donald Kincaid
• John Barrick
• Bryn Joyce

A 4th unnamed Baltimore detective is deceased.


Men who wrongly served 36 years for murder sue Baltimore police, homicide detectives, alleging pattern of misconduct

When Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart walked out of the Baltimore City courthouse in November, each having served 36 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit, they joined 10 other men who the courts concluded had been wrongly convicted of murder by Baltimore police and prosecutors between 1984 and 1999. “You take three kids’ lives and tear them apart,” Watkins said Thursday, “nobody wants to talk about it.” He was jailed at 16, and released at 52. “I’m struggling to get my life back on board.” On Thursday, the three men sued the Baltimore Police Department ...

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