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A man who has spent 12 years in prison for killing an off-duty Cook County Jail officer was released Oct. 27, 2016 after prosecutors threw out his conviction Chicago Tribune reported.

Bernard Mims, was convicted for the October 2000 killing Dwayne Baker. Mims’ lawyer, Kathleen Zellner said Mims was bedridden at the time of the killing after being shot himself about 10 days earlier.

A re-investigation into the case in 2015, conducted by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit. This investigation helped Mims get his conviction vacated.

WTTW reports, Mims is now suing the city of Chicago and nine Chicago Police officers for “engineer[ing] a case” by falsifying and withholding evidence in order to ensure Mims was convicted.

Part of a 26-page complaint filed states, “To further their objective the Defendant Officers withheld exculpatory evidence, manipulated witnesses and misdirected the investigation away from the individuals the Defendant Officers knew to be the likely perpetrators. As a result, Plaintiff was prosecuted for a crime in which he had no involvement.”

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