A Baltimore man named Malcolm Jabbar Bryant
has been exonerated and set free after
spending
17 years in prison for a murder that new DNA
evidence has finally shown he did not commit.
Malcom was arrested in 1998 when a ‘single eyewitness’ identified him as the man who
stabbed a 16-year-old girl named Toni Bullock
to
death on November 20, 1998. He and his
family
always maintained he was innocent and tried all
sorts of appeals and several different post-
conviction procedures to no avail. However, Michele Nethercott, of the University
of
Baltimore’s Innocence Project, took up his case
&
eventually obtained court orders to test the
victim’s fingernail clippings and T-shirt for DNA, which happened to have a rare identifier that
was
not consistent with Bryant’s. The DNA tested
showed that blood on the victim’s T-shirt did
not
match his and Bryant’s attorneys asked for a new
trial which was granted by a Baltimore Circuit
Court judge. Baltimore City State’s Attorney
Marilyn Mosby said
that the Conviction Integrity Unit re-
investigated the girl’s murder and concluded that Bryant is
indeed not the killer. After serving almost two
decades behind bars, he was finally cleared
and
set free. Pictures of him after he was released
from jail below

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