NEW YORK — A man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a roughly $550 robbery was exonerated and freed Monday, after prosecutors said they now agree he didn’t commit the crime. “It cost me 20 years, but they said they corrected it now. So that’s all that matters. So I’m good with that,” … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, and he only learned later that another man in the group of robbers had shot and killed a store customer. “I didn’t know anything about nobody getting hurt until we … Read more
A Detroit Lions cornerback has been implicated in a plot to impose “vigilante justice” on a chauffeur and two other people he suspected of burglarizing the Airbnb in Florida where he had been staying, according to court records. Terrion Arnold is not charged with a crime, but his friend Boakai Eugene Hilton was the brains … Read more