After nearly 30 years in prison for a murder he maintains he did not commit, Friday was Robert Johnson's first day of freedom, a day after a judge vacated his 1996 murder conviction. Johnson has ...

Robert Johnson was 16 years old when he was arrested and sentenced to 80 years in prison. He was let out of the Cook County Jail Thursday evening after his conviction was vacated by a judge.

"My Grandma, she used to always say, 'Well Robert I hope I'm here when you get out,' and I use to always say, 'Grandma don't say that. You going to be here,'" Johnson said. He stayed true to his word.

They had me in that cage for 28 years and 10 months of my life for something I didn’t have nothing to do with,” Robert Johnson said to reporters gathered outside the facility. Johnson called ...