Brooklyn Man Exonerated After 24 Years In Prison: ‘I’m Gonna Live The Rest Of My Life’

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A man who spent almost a quarter-century behind bars for murder was freed Tuesday and cleared of a killing that happened when he was 1,100 miles away on a Disney World vacation.

Jonathan Fleming was in tears as he hugged his lawyers and family in a Brooklyn courtroom. Relatives said, “Thank you, God!” after he was freed.

“After 25 years, come hug your mother,” she said, and he did.

“How do I feel? I feel wonderful. I’m going to eat dinner with my mother and my family and I’m gonna live the rest of my life,” Fleming said after leaving prison. “I’ve dreamt about this many nights and I’m finally a free man. Justice has definitely been served today.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/08/da-man-wrongly-convicted-of-1989-brooklyn-murder-walks-free-out-of-prison/

[tech3149]

1. Gee! Thank God for our Criminal Justice system!

It's just a shame it's more criminal than justice. Who was it that said that we are all due the justice we can pay for? I guess I'm pretty much screwed.

[oshma]

2. I hope he sues the pants off everybody

http://leftvoices.net/wordpress/decades-in-prison-on-police-and-prosecutors-lies/ "Decades in prison, on police and prosecutors' lies."

Thank God his mother was still alive to see him freed.

[hrmjustin]

3. I hope he sues as well.

[hrmjustin]

4. Men Freed From Prison Urge Brooklyn DA To Speed Up Reviews Of Detective’s Cases

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/men-freed-from-prison-urge-brooklyn-da-to-speed-up-reviews-of-detectives-cases/