For years a Baltimore man was behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, but now, 27 years later, Clarence Shipley has been released.
According to Faithwire, Shipley was arrested in 1992 and convicted of first-degree murder. The site reports that the Baltimore man heard that police were looking for him and decided to turn himself in. Even so, Shipley maintained his innocence, claiming that police had arrested the wrong man.
It wasn’t until this year that Shipley’s claim was investigated. Faithwire reports that Shipley’s family hired a former detective to look into his case. This led the Baltimore native’s case to land on a desk at the Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic. According to the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, police never looked into Shipley’s alibi and there were several inconsistencies in Shipley’s conviction. Reportedly, a witness testified that whoever committed the 1991 murder of Kevin Smith was right-handed, Shipley, however, is left-handed. Between the inconsistencies and the lack of solid police work, Shipley was set free.
The Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby made a statement apologizing to Shipley on behalf of the state. She said, “When a man, who is an innocent man, spent 27 years of the prime of his life behind bars, so on behalf of the criminal justice system, as a representative of the…
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