David Wright was just 17 years old when he says Chicago police detectives forced him to confess to the murder of his friends, 16-year-old Tyrone Rockett and 26-year-old Robert Smith, in 1994.
He spent 28 years in prison before he was released last year, after his conviction was vacated. Now that prosecutors have dropped the charges against him, he said he will now fight for those still behind bars who were wrongfully convicted.
"It feels good, but at the same time it's questionable. For the last 30 years you've done implemented in two families' minds that I did something that I didn't. So how do you change that now?" Wright said after the charges were dropped at a hearing Wednesday morning. "Their families are going to walk around for the rest of their lives, thinking I killed their loved ones. How do you change that?" Wright said.
"The only evidence that ever existed against Mr. Wright was the statements that they said that he gave as a juvenile," said his attorney, David Owens, with The Exoneration Project."There was no eyewitness. There is no forensic evidence. There's no bullet evidence. There's no nothing like that. It's just, 'Oh yeah, this kid after 15 hours of interrogation said this,' and that's all it was.
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