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		</div><h6><strong><span style="color: #120202;">Maryland man was exonerated and freed Tuesday ending nearly three decades of incarceration on a wrongful murder conviction</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #120202;">Clarence Shipley, 47, was wrongly jailed for murder in 1991 at the age of 20, based on a false witness testimony</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #120202;">He spent nearly 27 years behind bars after he was accused of shooting Kevin Smith, 29, in 1991 outside a shopping center in Baltimore </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #120202;">Shipley who missed the birth of a son while behind bars and lost another in a house fire, was surrounded by his family as he forgave the false witnesses </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #120202;">His family hired a retired detective four years ago who uncovered catastrophic flaws in the investigation &#8211; witnesses lied on the stand </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #120202;">Prosecutors said new witness evidence identified Larry Davis who died in 2005 as the killer</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="media-library__list-item-centered" draggable="false" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Clarence-Shipley-1.png?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Clarence Shipley 1" width="660" height="415" />Justice at</strong> last:<strong> After 27 years in jail, Clarence Shipley was exonerated Tuesday and released from a 1991 wrongful murder conviction, when he was aged 20 <br /></strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">A Maryland man who spent nearly three decades in jail for a murder he did not commit smiled broadly as he was released and forgave his accusers.<br />Clarence Shipley, 47, was exonerated and released on Tuesday after being imprisoned for 27 years for the gunning down of Kevin Smith, 29, in 1991 in Baltimore at the age of 19<br />Subsequently 20-year-old Shipley was convicted on false witness testimony.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Shipley smiled broadly outside court and said, &#8220;&#8216;Freedom feels good&#8221;, as he was surrounded by family and friends<br />Shipley was exonerated Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court of robbing and killing a 29-year-old chef in the Cherry Hill neighborhood nearly three decades ago.<br />In October 1991, Kevin Smith was shot and killed at Joseph Avenue and Cherry Hill Road as he walked from Cherry Hill Shopping Center with two other people. <br />The innocence project attorneys and assistant state’s attorneys in Baltimore interviewed new witnesses who identified the killer, prosecutors say, as Larry Davis. <br />Davis died in 2005.<br />“Clarence Shipley did not commit the murder,” Assistant State’s Attorney Lauren Lipscomb told the judge.<br /><iframe style="border: none;" src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?o=1&;p=48&;l=ur1&;category=motorcycleatv&;banner=1GTBWXZ6AWK39XVHDN82&;f=ifr&;linkID=17cef0367a1fbda76dfc41a503a44352&;t=konniemomen0a-20&;tracking_id=konniemomen0a-20" width="728" height="90" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />He had been convicted on faulty witness testimony and imprisoned nearly three decades, the 47-year-old was headed home to his wife in time for Christmas.<br />“Good luck, sir,” Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeffrey Geller told the newly freed man, the <a class="class" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-man-exonerated-after-27-years-in-prison-for-murder-he-didnt-commit/2018/12/19/be1a4780-03b2-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.a38e8f5d9ced" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Washing Post</a> reported.<br />“Thank you,” Shipley said, his voice and composure cracking.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">According to <a class="class" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-man-exonerated-after-27-years-in-prison-for-murder-he-didnt-commit/2018/12/19/be1a4780-03b2-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.a38e8f5d9ced" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ABC</a>, Shipley continued: &#8216;I was waiting on that, God is good, I was waiting on that.&#8217;<br />He hugged his defense attorney as the ruling was read out by the Judge. <br />The courtroom was filled with cheers and friends and family of Shipley wept with joy as he was freed. <br />He had maintained his innocence throughout his decades behind bars. Four years ago, his friends and family hired a retired homicide detective who uncovered catastrophic flaws in the investigation.<br />Prosecutors said new witness evidence identified a man who died in 2005 as the killer.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">His relatives hired a retired detective several years ago who found catastrophic failings in the original murder investigation. A legal team from the nonprofit projects headed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. the University of Baltimore and George Washington University, fought the courtroom battle<br />Shipley missed the birth of his son behind bars, while his other son perished in a house fire.<br />He told ABC: &#8216;I lost a lot, I lost a child while I was behind bars, a child that I never got to know.&#8217;</div>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Clarence Shipley [center] stands outside court with members of his legal team as Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, addresses the media</strong></p>



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Shipley becomes the fourth man exonerated through the work of the innocence projects headed by Marilyn Mosby, in collaboration with ; the two DC area schools.<br>“The system did something wrong that a man, an innocent man, in the prime of his life, spent 27 years behind bars,” Mosby said outside the courthouse.<br>Mosby said that at least one witness lied during his initial trial and that her office was investigating whether to bring charges of perjury.<br>Clarence Shipley helds no ill will. &#8211; “I forgive them,” he said. “I’m just wanting to go to church.”<br>Shipley’s family had gathered to await his release. His mother, Ola, told of calling her son behind bars and telling him to have faith.<br>“You got to keep praying,” she said. “Look at what God did. He opened the door.”<br>Reminiscing on ; what was lost during those years, she recalls her son ; missed the chance to see his own son grow up. Another son was killed in a house fire. He missed the birth of his grandson. His wedding was behind bars at the state prison in Hagerstown<br>Outside court Clarence himself appeared overcome and said little before the crowd of attorneys, families and TV cameras. He said he felt blessed.<br>“I just kept believing in God,” he said.<br>The work of freeing innocent people behind bars is undertaken by teams of researchers, lawyers and college students with the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Baltimore and the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project at George Washington.<br>To date they have helped secure the release and exoneration of 30 innocent men who served a combined 545 years in prison for crimes they did not commit.</p>

Early Christmas! Maryland man ends life behind bars after 27 years – Clarence Shipley was imprisoned in 1991, falsely accused of gunning down a man in Baltimore, aged 20
