A Baltimore man named Malcolm Jabbar Bryant has been exonerated and set free after spending 17 years in prison for a murder that new DNA evidence has finally shown he did not commit.
Malcom was arrested in 1998 when a 'single eyewitness' identified him as the man who stabbed a 16-year-old girl named Toni Bullock to death on November 20, 1998. He and his family always maintained he was innocent and tried all sorts of appeals and several different post-conviction procedures to no avail.
However, Michele Nethercott, of the University of Baltimore’s Innocence Project, took up his case & eventually obtained court orders to test the victim’s fingernail clippings and T-shirt for DNA, which happened to have a rare identifier that was not consistent with Bryant’s. The DNA tested showed that blood on the victim's T-shirt did not match his and Bryant's attorneys asked for a new trial which was granted by a Baltimore Circuit Court judge.
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