Three US men exonerated after 36 years in prison

Three Baltimore men who spent 36 years in prison were exonerated on Monday of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at Harlem Park Junior High School in West Baltimore. “These three men were convicted, as children, because of police and prosecutorial misconduct,” Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby said after the three were formally exonerated by a city circuit court judge and released from prison. “What the state, my office, did to them is wrong,” Mosby said. “They deserve so much more than an apology. We owe them real compensation -- and I plan to fight for it.”