Two weeks after a Cook County judge overturned his murder conviction, Darien Harris is expected to be a free man again after prosecutors said Tuesday they will not retry him in a fatal shooting at a South Side gas station. Harris was an 18-year-old high school senior with a clean criminal record when prosecutors charged him in an ambush-style attack that left one man dead and another seriously .
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Darien Harris was locked up in 2011 aged 18, just a week before he graduated high school, and accused of shooting dead a man at a Chicago petrol station - with only the word of a blind man to go on.
A Chicago man convicted of murder and sentenced to 76 years behind bars has had his conviction overturned and will be retried after a key witness to the shooting was revealed as legally blind.