If Alstory Simon is innocent of killing two people, it's despite confessing that he did it, and despite the dramatic 1999 courtroom scene in which Simon, tears in his eyes, told the mother of one victim, "I didn't mean to hurt her—your daughter never did anything to me. It was an accident and she got in the way."
Simon got 37 years in prison for the murder of Marilyn Green and voluntary manslaughter of Jerry Hillard, both gunned down in Washington Park in 1982. As Simon's former lawyer, Jack Rimland, has pointed out, Simon made out a lot better than Anthony Porter, who was originally convicted of the killings and sent to death row.…
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