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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amelia Neath

Chicago teen wrongly convicted of murder based on blind witness finally walks free after 12 years

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A man who spent his remaining teenage years and the entirety of his twenties in prison for a crime he did not commit has been exonerated after the key witness was found legally blind.

Darien Harris was only 17 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Rondell Moore at a gas station in 2011. He was sentenced to 76 years in prison just weeks before he was supposed to graduate high school.

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