Shakara Robertson, Marcus Smith and Darryl Washington were exonerated on Friday after a judge declared them actually innocent. The three Dallas men had been convicted of a purse snatching in 1994 on the basis of eyewitness identification which turned out to be mistaken. The Innocence Project of Texas was able to locate the actual perpetrators who all confessed to the crime. The real criminals went on to commit more crimes while Robertson, Smith and Washington were being wrongfully convicted. They cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has expired.
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