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    Man in prison for 29 years freed after Illinois prosecutors drop charges

    by Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune Nov 15, 2017 4 minutes

    CHICAGO - Relatives screamed with joy a little after 6 p.m. Tuesday when Arthur Brown stepped slowly out of Cook County Jail - a free man for the first time nearly 30 years after he was arrested for a double murder he long insisted he did not commit.

    "That's him! That's him!" one woman yelled as the group, holding homemade welcome signs, chanted and pumped their fists.

    Brown, tall and slim at 66, greeted his sister and nieces with kisses on the cheek.

    "I knew that this day would come," he told reporters in a slow, quiet voice. "The truth would come out."

    Brown was ordered released after Cook County prosecutors reversed course, announcing

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