Johnson spoke to the media around 6:30 p.m. after his reunion with family members, including his 92-year-old grandmother. The Exoneration Project worked for years to make the sweet moment possible.

Robert Johnson was 16 years old in 1996, when police took him from his grandmother’s brick two-flat on the South Side of Chicago without her permission. Although Johnson never confessed to any crime, ...

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