Thaddeus Jimenez was arrested for a street gang murder in Chicago when he was 13. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison, but served only 16 before he was exonerated yesterday by the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern.
Read more:
- ABA Journal: Arrested at 13, Freed 16 Years Later After Witnesses Recant
- Innocence Project in New York's news update
- Video of Thaddeus's release on YouTube
The ABA Journal article mentions witness recantations as a reason prosecutors took a second look into his case. How come that can't happen for Troy Davis, the evidence in whose case is even more egregious?
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