American Military News March 10, 2020 Joshua Sharpe - The Atlanta Journal Constitution
When the old soldiers walked free, they knew it wasn’t the end.
Their minds were ravaged from 25 years in prison – from fist fights and longing, from the torment of waking up every day to the realization that they might die before anyone believed they were innocent.
The three U.S. Army veterans felt happy – euphoric – when their convictions were overturned and they left prison in December 2017. But they said they had no money, no prospects and no idea how they could ever really recover.
Before everything fell apart in 1992, Mark Jones, Kenny Gardiner and Dominic Lucci were best friends who were barely in their 20s. They met playing fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons at Fort Stewart. They never got into trouble. Then prosecutors painted the trio, who are white, as racists who shot a black man at random in Savannah just for the thrill of killing. Two decades later, the case against them crumbled when a nonprofit helped expose the one big lie that had led to their murder convictions.
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