Man convicted of murder released from prison after 26 years as prosecutors admit he did not commit the crime

After spending more than a quarter-century behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit, Brian Pippitt will be walking out of prison a free man.

Pippitt, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 murder of convenience store clerk Evelyn Malin, is expected to be released on Wednesday from a prison in Faribault, Minnesota, after the Minnesota Board of Pardons commuted his sentence.