‘The Best Christmas Gift Ever’: Testimony of Legally Blind Witness Landed Chicago Man In Prison for 76 Years, Now He Will be Freed After Serving 12 Years
A Chicago man who spent more than a decade behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit was freed from prison two weeks after a judge overturned the conviction due to new evidence that undermined the prosecution’s case. Darien Harris, who is Black, was convicted in 2014 for the June 2011 shooting death of Rondell…