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- Alstory Simon left prison a free man yesterday.
The page-one story in both the Tribune and Sun-Times Friday was the freeing of Alstory Simon, after State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez decided to dismiss his conviction. We can now ponder the complexities and ironies of an extraordinary legal saga—a double murder in a south-side park in 1982 that led to the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois while contributing hugely to the erosion of respect for Alvarez’s profession. Now we have not one convicted killer, Anthony Porter, exonerated, but two, Simon being the so-called “real” killer who confessed in 1999 as Porter went free.
The argument for Alstory Simon’s innocence (and Anthony Porter’s guilt): this story and this one from 2011.
