""I remember waking up the next morning after being interrogated, and it's like, 'Wow, these people really don't care.'""
""My son was just born at the time. He was born in November of 1990 and I went to prison in February of '91; I lost all that time with him, spending time with him, watching him grow....""
""The witness recognized Mr. Ellis from the newspaper as one of the men arrested for the Arby's shooting, and repeatedly told Defendant Wells that Mr. Ellis was not one of the men she saw at the scene of the Arby's shooting.""
Christopher Ellis was wrongfully convicted of murder at 20, coerced into a confession after an 18-hour interrogation. Despite an alibi, he was convicted based on his confession and a single witness. He served 31 years in prison, losing significant time with his family. After learning about a witness who could exonerate him, he filed a lawsuit against Nassau County and detectives for withholding evidence that could have cleared him.
Read at New York Daily News
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