DETROIT, MI – A Detroit man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit walked free Tuesday, March 31, after a judge vacated his conviction and dismissed the charges.
“I feel great, it’s kind of surreal. I feel like I’m dreaming still,” Roy Blackmon said in a phone interview with MLive about 30 minutes after his release.
Blackmon, 49, had been serving a sentence for a 1998 shooting on Detroit’s west side that left one man dead and two others injured. A jury convicted him in 1999 of second-degree murder, felony firearm and assault charges…