Chester Hollman III on Life Taken Away and Retrieved — 28 Years Apart
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Michaelle Bond and Emilie Lounsberry draw on the moving story of a man wronged by the criminal justice system where key witnesses lied and years later recanted hester Hollman III sat at a prosecutors’ concession he was “likely picnic table in a park down the innocent,” and ordered him freed. street from the house where he Through the decades behind bars, grew up. Hollman had thought about what it would I feel like I’m crushed inside. I He took in the tennis and be like if he were ever released: How would Cbasketball courts and the overgrown fi eld he feel? Where would he go? don’t feel like I’m really me. It where, as a kid decades earlier, he’d spent Now given the chance, he struggled for days and nights playing ball. Now 49, answers. took every ounce of strength he watched a shorts-clad mailman walk “I feel like I’m crushed inside,” he said. from door to door Tuesday afternoon and “I don’t feel like I’m really me. It took every to make it to this point wondered whether any of the neighbours ounce of strength to make it to this point.” he once knew still live in those brick and The Hollman case is the latest example stone houses. of old murder prosecutions being examined — Chester Hollman III, victim It had been 28 years since Hollman by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry could even sit in a park, since his arrest, Krasner and his Conviction Integrity Unit conviction, and a life prison term for a — especially prosecutions from roughly the Philadelphia murder he always swore he mid-1980s to the mid-1990s — at a time didn’t commit. And barely one day since when the city was battling a high rate of ‘ ’ a judge fi nally took his side, accepted homicides. In his case, the unit concluded Monday, July 22, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Chester Hollman’s family never stopped fighting. “Don’t let them defeat you. Stay strong,” his mother would tell him. In 1999, she died of kidney failure. He wasn’t allowed to leave prison for the funeral that prosecutors and police had hidden evidence that pointed to more viable suspects. These reviews come amid a national reckoning of sorts for the criminal justice system. It was unleashed by DNA testing advances that have helped prove guilt and innocence but also fuelled by a growing recognition that eyewitness identification is fallible; that suspects sometimes give false confessions; and that some cases are plagued by outright ignorance, incompetence, and even corruption by police and prosecutors. “We’re seeing this all over the country,” said Marissa Boyers Bluestine, the former head of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project who worked with Hollman’s BLISS IT WAS TO BE YOUNG: Chester Hollman III poses for a high school graduation picture in 1988.