LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man whose 1992 murder conviction was overturned with the help of the Midwest Innocence Project was freed from prison Wednesday, describing the moment as “surreal” and saying he plans to meet up with his fiancée before traveling to see family in Las Vegas.
John Brown, 51, got cheeseburgers with his lawyers after U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson ordered him set free. He spent 26 years behind bars for the 1988 robbing and killing of 72-year old Myrtle Jones in Fordyce, a community about 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Little Rock.