© Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times Antonio Yarbough’s conviction was vacated Thursday, after he spent more than two decades in prison accused of killing his mother, sister and another girl.
Their wrists uncuffed, their ankles unchained, Antonio Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom Thursday afternoon, free after more than two decades in prison for three murders they did not commit.
Convicted of stabbing and garroting Mr. Yarbough's mother, his 12-year-old sister and another 12-year-old girl to death in 1992, when Mr. Yarbough was 18 and Mr. Wilson was 15, both men had their convictions vacated on Thursday after prosecutors said newly discovered evidence created "substantial reasonable doubt of the defendants' guilt," as assistant district attorney Mark Hale told the judge.
Last year, testing revealed that DNA under Mr. Yarbough's mother's fingernails matched that found on another murder victim in 1999 - when the men had already been in prison for years.
Free of the courtroom, Mr. Yarbough knelt to pray, his hands clasped over a black office chair. "It feels good," he said, "to be vindicated."
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