A wrongfully convicted Michigan man serving life in prison with no chance for parole is now a free man.
At the age of 23, Corey Quentin McCall was sentenced to serve life without parole on December 5, 2005. After spending nearly 16 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, 39-year-old Corey is having his wrongful conviction vacated and has now been released from the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia.
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How He Was Wrongfully Convicted
On March 26, 2005, four armed men broke into a house and killed three people, and shot a surviving victim during a robbery in Benton Harbor. The surviving victim eventually identified McCall as one of the gunmen after seeing his profile during the robbery for 1-2 seconds.
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