A judge ordered last week that the man, Christopher Dunn, 52, be released immediately, but the Missouri attorney general appealed the decision, delaying Mr. Dunn's exit as a series of legal maneuvers played out.
For those who participated in my prosecution, I forgive you, said Mr. Dunn, who had been serving a sentence of life without parole. I'm not going to forget, but I do forgive you.
Mr. Dunn was convicted in 1991 in the murder of Ricco Rogers, 15, who was fatally shot in May 1990 while running away from a shooter who had fired at a group he was in as they sat on the porch of a St. Louis home around midnight.
The conviction was based on the testimony of two eyewitnesses, boys who were 12 years old and 14 years old at the time. Both eyewitnesses have since recanted their statements.
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