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A Minnesota man imprisoned for 27 years is free after a key witness says she committed the murder
Bryan Hooper Sr. spent 27 years in prison before exoneration; conviction was based on false testimony now recanted by key witnesses including the actual perpetrator.
- On Thursday, Bryan Hooper Sr. was released from Stillwater Correctional Facility after State District Court Judge Marta Chou vacated his conviction the day before, and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and the Great North Innocence Project announced his exoneration.
- Multiple recantations and jailhouse informant withdrawals led prosecutors and GNIP to seek vacating Hooper's conviction after Chalaka Young confessed to killing Prazniak and hiding the body.
- Court records note Hooper's 1998 conviction with three life sentences, while police found Ann Prazniak's body in April 1998 and only Young's fingerprints on the binding tape.
- Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said `Today, the courts have affirmed what Bryan Hooper, his family, his loved ones, and his advocates have always known: Mr. Hooper is an innocent man`, and the case returns to Minneapolis Police Department as prosecutors consider charges, Shawn Daye said.
- Hooper reunited with his children and plans to live in the Twin Cities area, while GNIP Legal Director Jim Mayer called for reforms to prevent future wrongful convictions.
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Wrongfully convicted Minnesota dad Bryan Hooper Sr. is freed from jail after 27 years as star witness confesses to murder
Bryan Hooper Sr. walked out of the Stillwater Correctional Facility and into the arms of his children on Thursday as he was wrongly imprisoned for 27 years for the 1998 murder of 77-year-old Ann Prazniak.
·New York, United States
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Wrongful conviction overturned in 1998 Minneapolis murder, Hooper released from prison
Bryan Hooper was released from prison for the first time in 27 years on Thursday. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office apologized to the family for the wrongful conviction.
·Minneapolis, United States
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