Prosecuted for murder as teenagers, the ‘Harlem Park 3’ sued Baltimore after they were released from prison in 2019.
Alfred Chestnut, right, speaks after he, Andrew Stewart, left center, and Ransom Watkins, back center, were released and exonerated for the 1983 murder of DeWitt Duckett. Three men who spent 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit — they were wrongly arrested as teenagers by Baltimore police and wrongly convicted by a jury — will receive $48 million from the city after a vote Wednesday by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates.
Shoup told defense attorneys there was no evidence exonerating the teens, despite reports showing that witnesses hadn’t identified them and that Willis had been named as a suspect, defense attorneys said. Several witnesses later told investigators that Kincaid and other detective coerced statements from them falsely accusing the “Harlem Park Three,” who all were convicted and sentenced to life in prison at age 17.
Chestnut said that he saw then-Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby on television speaking about her Conviction Integrity Unit, designed to correct the wrongs inflicted by her predecessors. Chestnut sent a handwritten letter to Mosby and then sent his files to the unit, which began working on it with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, as well as the Maryland Office of the Public Defender and the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic.
The prosecutor, Shoup, died in 2016, and the suspect Willis was shot to death in West Baltimore in 2002.
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