After 27 years behind bars for a crime authorities now say he didn’t commit, Bryan Hooper Sr. is a free man. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and the Great North Innocence Project announced that Hooper has been exonerated and is expected to be released from Stillwater Correctional Facility on Thursday.…
CHICAGO (WGN) — The list of homicide exonerations tied to disgraced former Chicago Police Department detective Reynaldo Guevara grew Monday, with Antonio McDowell becoming the 51st individual exonerated in a Guevara case. McDowell's homicide conviction was officially tossed after a court hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Monday morning. In…