Nearly a year after their convictions for a 1997 murder were overturned, a judge Wednesday ruled that brothers Jose and Rosendo Hernandez had been framed.
At a brief hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Judge Erica Reddick granted the pair certificates of innocence and offered an apology to the brothers, who spent more than 26 years in prison on murder convictions based on an investigation tainted by lead investigator Reynaldo Guevara, a former Chicago police detective who has been linked to dozens of wrongful conviction claims.
