'It feels good, but at the same time it's questionable,' David Wright said. 'For the last 30 years... It's on two family's minds that I did something that I didn't. So how do you change that now?
David Wright, who went to prison when he was just 17, was exonerated in a 1994 Englewood double murder dropped Wednesday.A man who went to prison when he was just 17 and spent more than half his life behind bars finally got the news he had been waiting for.
That 17-year-old is now 46. And after serving 28 years in prison, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office dropped the charges against him. "As a 17-year-old kid, bring him to the police station and interrogate him for 14.5-14 hours," said David B. Owens, Wright's attorney. "At the end of the day, he signed a confession, we are done. And then he is criminally prosecuted and had a mandatory life sentence as a juvenile."Also in court were the family of one of the victims from the 1994 double murder case.
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