ST. LOUIS — A judge overturned the conviction of a Black man who has spent more than three decades years in prison for a killing he said he didn’t commit.
St. Louis Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser’s ruling was announced more than a month after a three-day hearing to vacate 52-year-old Christopher Dunn’s guilty verdict.
Dunn was represented by the Midwest Innocence Project.
Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder of 15-year-old Ricco Rogers who was fatally shot in 1990.
The judge’s ruling is expected to set Dunn free from prison, but it wasn’t immediately known what date he will be released.
More on the hearing and murder case.
