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| | Porter: Exonerated: Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Law |
 | | The victims, Marilyn Green, 19, and Jerry Hillard, 18, were shot to death in the bleachers overlooking a swimming pool in Washington Park on the South Side of Chicago shortly after 1 a.m. |
 | | Despite his protestations of innocence and the lack of physical evidence connecting him with the murders, he was arrested and charged with the two murders, one count of armed robbery, one count of unlawful restraint, and two counts of unlawful use of weapons. |
 | | Porter thus became the tenth person sentenced to death in Illinois under the present capital punishment law to be released based on innocence. |
| www.law.northwestern.edu /depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/porter.htm (1519 words) |
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