• Exonerated, graduated, and ready for law school

    On December 14, James Soto and his cousin David Ayala were released from Stateville Correctional Center after a 42-year-long fight to prove their innocence. At the time of his release, Soto was the longest-serving wrongfully convicted prisoner in Illinois history. Earlier that week, a Cook County judge vacated Soto’s sentence, stating that neither he nor […]
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