A Chicago man spends 16 years in prison and finally has justice served years later. Thaddeus Jimenez, 32, went to jail when he was a teenager for a murder charge yet was released in May 2009 when it was determined that he had been wrongly convicted.

After, Jimenez had spent nearly his entire life in prison and was released he sued the city due to the fact that the police ignored some of the evidence – one of the things which happened to be a confession from another suspect by the name of Juan Carlos Torres.

When all of this took place Jimenez was tried and convicted twice with a sentence of 45 years in prison. However, years later students and lawyers from the Northwestern University Bluhm Center on Wrongful Convictions decided to reinvestigate his conviction and found that the two key witnesses who stated that he was the gunman later changed their stories. After this was revealed the state attorney agreed to reopen Jimenez’s case.

They are saying that if this verdict stands it will be one of the largest levied against Chicago in the city’s history.

Jimenez has been awarding twenty five million in damages and he currently works at a restaurant wondering what he can do with his life now after he has spent all of that time in jail.

Some people feel as though the state attorney’s office should be praised because they realized that injustice has occurred and they reopened the case and corrected the problem.  However, some feel as though no amount of money is good enough because they have destroyed this man’s life.