A Chicago man who spent nearly three decades languishing in prison, serving time for a murder he did not commit , finally has been freed.
Robert Johnson was 16 when police walked him out of his grandmother’s home in April 1996 and arrested him for the murder of Eddie “Jay” Binion.
Binion was fatally shot during a home invasion when a group of masked men stormed his apartment and then took off with drugs and cash.
The next day, police arrested Johnson’s friend and two other teenage boys whom prosecutors coerced into pinning the murder on Johnson in exchange for plea deals, according to the Exoneration Project …