After serving 25 years of prison time for a crime he didn’t commit, Monday marked the first day of the rest of Darryl Pinkins’ life. The 63-year-old Indiana father was released from Lake County jail after spending just a month shy of a quarter-century behind bars. He was convicted in 1991 for what prosecutors said was his participation in a horrific 1989 gang rape. After years of unflinchingly maintaining his innocence, justice was finally served.

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