3 Men Released After 1998 Murder Conviction is Overturned

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office announced Tuesday that three men have been exonerated of a murder in North Philadelphia nearly 30 years ago.

Mark Brittingham, Jermel Shuler and Rasheed Smith were convicted in 1998 of the November 1997 killing of 73-year-old Essie Thomas. Krasner said the flaw in the case came from an incorrect determination of the time of death by the Medical Examiner’s Office.

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