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‘It’s unreal’: Three Baltimore men exonerated after 36 years in prison
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November 26, 2019
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2:52Now PlayingAlfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison in 1984 for murdering a Baltimore teen. They were exonerated and released on Nov. 25.
Dewitt Duckett, 14, was killed on Nov. 18, 1983, at a high school over his jacket. The three men convicted, when they were teenagers, said they were not at the school at the time of the killing. They were arrested on Thanksgiving Day in 1983. This Thanksgiving they get to spend it with their families.
The men became eligible for parole in recent years, but all three declined to accept responsibility for the slaying.
Maryland also has no working system to compensate exonerees even though such payments are allowed by state law. Read moreSubscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube
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