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Friday 13 May 2016

DNA evidence frees man serving life sentence for killing of teen in 1998

A Baltimore man named Malcolm Jabbar Bryant has been exonerated and set free after spending 17 years in prison for a murder that new DNA evidence has finally shown he did not commit.

Malcom was arrested in 1998 when a 'single eyewitness' identified him as the man who stabbed a 16-year-old girl named Toni Bullock to death on November 20, 1998. He and his family always maintained he was innocent and tried all sorts of appeals and several different post-conviction procedures to no avail.

However, Michele Nethercott, of the University of Baltimore’s Innocence Project, took up his case & eventually obtained court orders to test the victim’s fingernail clippings and T-shirt for DNA, which happened to have a rare identifier that was not consistent with Bryant’s. The DNA tested showed that blood on the victim's T-shirt did not match his and Bryant's attorneys asked for a new trial which was granted by a Baltimore Circuit Court judge.

Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said that the Conviction Integrity Unit re-investigated the girl's murder and concluded that Bryant is indeed not the killer. After serving almost two decades behind bars, he was finally cleared and set free. Pictures of him after he was released from jail below


Photo Credit: @MelserWBAL

55 comments:

  1. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    Even the greatest country of all time makes mistakes.... Thank God for him though no doubt.....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  2. They need to pay him for the wrongful sentence and for 1 years of his life they wasted. I wonder what they used in nailing him for the crime...some racial profiling bullsh$t.


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  3. This is exactly why death penalty is totally wrong. It is irreversible.

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  4. Omg... this is horrible, imagine the pains in his heart all his stay in the prison for years..humm
    So many innocent people in prison, sad!



    ~glo rule your world~ cos I do•

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  5. Thank goodness but he needs compensation

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  6. The justice system has cheated him big time.No amount of money or plea for forgiveness can bring back the time he lost.Kai I feel for him

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  7. The justice system has cheated him big time.No amount of money or plea for forgiveness can bring back the time he lost.Kai I feel for him

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  8. ************************This pipo sabi jail innocent pipo****************n it always takes times for d truth to surface *************Nawa oo**************imagine 17 fucking years meeeehn !!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't dey jux investig8 well ????????????? I swear me go curse d person n hix or her entire generation

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  9. What happens to his wasted years behind unjust bars?

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  10. Awwww,cant imagine his mixed feelings...Thank God at last,he has been vindicated. #TearsavJoy

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  11. Your God is on the throne!!! 17 clear years imprisoned unjustly is no joke and no amount of compensation can bring it back. Just live your life in thanksgiving to God.

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  12. Mixed feelings... He is one of the lucky few. Good for him.

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  13. Just like that, almost 18yrs gone??? Na wa o

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  14. This is heart breaking. His daughter is so pissed...and rightly so. He had better be compensated handsomely.

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  15. This is not fair 17 whole wasted years�� he should sue for wrongful imprisonment n demand damge in hundred of millions

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  16. And they claim to be more critical in litigation process....why didn't they carry DNA test then

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  17. Eya. Poor man, already served 17 years. Good to know he's out finally. The power of technology

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  18. Thank God, but the years lost.........pity

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  19. They shud beta compensate the man

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  20. I can feel his pain. 17 years wasted. They should compensate him real good, it will go a long way. #lindaobserve!!!

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  21. wow,,Thank GOD,justice will always prevail.

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  22. wow,,Thank GOD,justice will always prevail.

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  23. See why we have poor justice system here. Cases are reviewed from time to time to ascertain their justiciability elsewhere, ours is that many innocent people are languishing in prison or ATM (Awaiting Trial Man) for a crime they know nothing about. Poor justice system...parody and miscarriage of justice!

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    1. Eeeeeeeeeeeyah! He should be compensated nah. Linda take note!

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  24. Chai poor dude. Racism st play, should it have been a white man, he'd have been freed long ago
    -D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

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  25. No..oo..he has to be compensated. .'re they mad..or the guy himself his he mad..he should better go to the prison cell and continue living there till they pay him compesonation..17years nah joke?

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  26. After spending 17 good years of his life in prison the lord is your strength whatever happens to someone usually happens for a reason

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  27. Thank God for him.


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  28. NA SO OYINB DE ALWAYS DO BLACK PIPLE DATS Y I NO FIT STAY FO A DAY OUT NIGERIA

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  29. So much pain.
    Thank God for FAMILY..
    Family z EVERYTHING...

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  30. 5million dollars,plus tax free life till he dies!

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  31. His own is still better. Most Nigerians have spent 17 years in a prison called Nigeria and their lives are worst than the state of this man today

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  32. 17years wasted..they shld compensate him for it o...haba..where he wan start from...anyhow sha.thank God they released him...yaay Linda am finally here

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  33. this brought tears to my eyes. wasted years

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  34. Awww! So sorry dude,,,,d Lord has vindicated u. It's for a divine purpose dat u hid in prison dat long.

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  35. He was convicted because he's black.


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  36. See how they wasted 17good years of ds man's lyf. Hope they will compensate him.

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  37. Oghene!! For crime wen he no commit dy go pay money for he head for wetin naa . God punish devil!!....dis na same tin with dat guy wa die na. Shuu!!...Mr official pay d guy d money ooo

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  38. The innocent will always be exonorated. Thank you Lord for vindicating him..

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  39. The Justice correctional system in the US is applicable,not in Nigeria,even in Africa it is rare.once you are jailed forget it

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  40. God this a point of contact. Vindicate my love one in Texas prison over offence he didn't commit since 8 yrs now.

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  41. Awwww, praise God. I hope he sues for compensation.
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  42. It's wel bro,God has reasons for everything so give God the glory

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  43. what if he had been served death sentence? what a cruel world.

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  44. they have taken 17years out of his life, i hope they'll adequately compensate for it.

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  45. Aw.sweet moment

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  46. May God save blacks all over the world, when you hear about blacks being on trial and all that, most of the they are framed........ Its been on for centuries, i advice you all to go read convictions of #BLACKS and that of the so fucking #WHITES , you will find about how blacks where being convicted unjustly. It's high time we start standing up for our own......

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