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Chicago man faces murder charge two years after he was exonerated for 1980 murder
NINA GOLGOWSKI
nydailynews.com
A Chicago man who spent 32 years behind bars for rape and murder before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2012 is now facing new murder charges.
Just 15 months after Andres Davis' release from a maximum-security prison in Illinois, authorities say the 53-year-old ex-con shot and stabbed a man following an argument at a party, the Chicago Sun Times reports.
The body of 19-year-old Jamal Harmon was found in an alley in October 2013 after suffering three gunshot wounds to the face, lower neck and left armpit. He was also stabbed four times.
Davis was charged Thursday with kidnapping and murder in Harmon's death and held without bail.
Shockingly, his arrest comes nearly two short years after he was released for the 1980 rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl.
DNA evidence overturned that conviction more than three decades later and prosecutors said they wouldn't retry him due to the length of time since the girl's murder.
"After 30 years, witnesses are either deceased, missing or no longer credible to testify," Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz said at the time, according to the Associated Press. "Based on the age of the case and the current state of the evidence, we elected to dismiss."
About 15 months later, Davis was at a party when Harmon and Davis' nephew allegedly got into a fight about money lost during a dice game.
Authorities say Davis fetched a gun and shot Harmon before his body was carried to a car truck while the teen was allegedly still alive.
Davis said he was going to find a place to dump the body, a witness claimed.
When Harmon's body was seen again, it was after suffering a number of stab and gunshot wounds.
Prosecutors claim Davis later told someone that he killed someone.
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