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Man freed from Maryland prison after 27 years
Maryland Common Meeting considers a invoice to finish life sentences for juveniles
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WASHINGTON – A person who was the main target of a 2018 documentary created by Georgetown College college students was free of a Maryland jail after 27 years.
Kenneth Bond was launched from Jessup Correctional Establishment on Feb. 9 after a Baltimore Metropolis Circuit Courtroom choose accredited a movement decreasing his sentence beneath Maryland’s Juvenile Restoration Act.
Bond had been incarcerated for over 27 years after he was sentenced to life plus 60 years at 16 years previous. He was convicted of homicide within the 1995 dying of Terrence Augusta McKoy, a Morgan State freshman, who was shot at a bus cease in Northeast Baltimore.
College students in Georgetown College’s “Making an Exoneree” course centered on Bond in 2018, making a documentary and web site analyzing the proof in Bond’s case.
Bond has not been exonerated, however his sentence was shortened by the JRA, which was enacted in 2021 to permit folks convicted as juveniles who’ve served no less than 20 years to have their sentences diminished.
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“After wanting into his case, I believed in his innocence and I believed in him. And whereas we’re nonetheless hoping to clear his title, I’m overjoyed that Kenneth is lastly house the place he belongs,” stated Marc Howard, director of Georgetown College’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.