‘Robbed’ of His Life by a Wrongful Conviction. Now Free, and Bewildered.
Larry McKee’s eyes lost their glimmer the second he stepped out of a car on a recent morning and recognized the Bronx corner where a street fight derailed his life more than 20 years ago.
Mr. McKee had returned to the corner in Morris Heights to make peace with his past, he said somberly, but most importantly to embrace his future. A laundromat had been replaced by a delicatessen.
Mr. McKee spent two decades in prison for a murder he has long maintained he did not commit.
A jury found Mr. McKee guilty of murder after a 16-year-old witness testified that he saw Mr. McKee shoot Theodore Vance, 29, after a fight on the corner, at 176th Street and University Avenue.
Mr. McKee was released after a new witness came forward last year and gave a different description of the killer. A person who knew the victim told the grand jury that in his last moments, the man had described his killer as a “Spanish guy.” Mr. McKee is black.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/nyregion/wrongful-conviction-larry-mckeeAdapted 02/10/2018
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