'Your Mission Is Justice': A Prosecutor on Why She Helped Free 3 Men

Three men walked out of prison this week after serving 36 years for a murder that prosecutors now acknowledge they did not commit. All along, the three — Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart — had insisted that they had nothing to do with the 1983 death of a junior high school student who was targeted inside the halls of his Baltimore school for his popular brand of jacket. But it took Baltimore officials, including the state’s attorney’s office that had prosecuted them in the f...