US EditionA Minnesota man imprisoned for 27 years is free after a key witness says she committed the murder
Bryan Hooper Sr. spent 27 years in prison before exoneration; conviction was based on false testimony now recanted by key witnesses including the actual perpetrator.
- On Thursday, Bryan Hooper Sr. was released from Stillwater Correctional Facility after State District Court Judge Marta Chou vacated his conviction the day before, and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and the Great North Innocence Project announced his exoneration.
- Multiple recantations and jailhouse informant withdrawals led prosecutors and GNIP to seek vacating Hooper's conviction after Chalaka Young confessed to killing Prazniak and hiding the body.
- Court records note Hooper's 1998 conviction with three life sentences, while police found Ann Prazniak's body in April 1998 and only Young's fingerprints on the binding tape.
- Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said `Today, the courts have affirmed what Bryan Hooper, his family, his loved ones, and his advocates have always known: Mr. Hooper is an innocent man`, and the case returns to Minneapolis Police Department as prosecutors consider charges, Shawn Daye said.
- Hooper reunited with his children and plans to live in the Twin Cities area, while GNIP Legal Director Jim Mayer called for reforms to prevent future wrongful convictions.
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He was released this Thursday after the real murderer confessed to his guilt. - In the United States, a man remained 27 years behind bars released after the confession of the real murderer (International).
Minnesota man leaves prison after serving 27 years for a murder he didn't commit
A Minnesota man walked out of prison on Thursday after spending nearly three decades behind bars for a murder that he not only didn’t commit but might have been carried out by the trial's key witness, prosecutors and advocates said.
Bryan Hooper, an American sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a seven-year-old in 1998, was released from prison on Thursday in Minnesota. A woman confessed.
Wrongfully convicted Minnesota man freed after three decades
Bryan Hooper has been freed from a Minnesota prison after he was incarcerated for more than three decades for a crime he did not commit. A woman imprisoned in Georgia recently confessed to the murder. “Hooper reunited with his children and planned to enjoy a meal with them and spend time with family,” the AP reports. “He plans to make his home for now in the Twin Cities area, where his children live.” A St. Paul native has joined the cast of sea…
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