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Prosecutors with the Office of the State’s Attorney For Baltimore City have dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Syed was released on his own recognizance on September 19 while the State Attorney’s Office decided whether or not to re-try him based on new DNA evidence.
For over 20 years, Ferrone Claiborne and Terrence Richardson have been imprisoned for a crime they did not commit, the murder of a police officer that has been blamed on them with no evidence, and poor eyewitness claims. Read on to hear their harrowing story and how you can help.
Joyce Watkins, and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie Dunn, picked up 4-year-old Brandi from a home in Kentucky on June 26, 1987, according to a report filed with the Davidson County Criminal Court. The following morning, the girl was unresponsive and Watkins rushed her to Nashville Memorial Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.