On Monday, a Hennepin County judge officially cleared Marvin Haynes, a Minneapolis man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager nearly two decades ago, finding him wrongfully convicted of the 2004 murder of Randy Sherer.
The judge highlighted the lack of forensic evidence or surveillance footage connecting Haynes to the crime, emphasizing the reliance on unreliable eyewitness identification for his conviction.
The Great North Innocence Project played a pivotal role in securing Haynes’ exoneration, and he left the Minnesota Correctional Facility with plans to visit his mother.
