Man imprisoned as teen for flower shop killing is released after judge throws out his conviction
by Steve Karnowski
Dec 11, 2023
3 minutes
A 35-year-old man who was sent to prison for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop was released Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his conviction rested was unreliable.
Marvin Haynes, who was 16 at the time of the killing, was released from prison shortly afterward the judge's ruling.
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office said it agreed with defense attorneys that Haynes had proven
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