A Chicago mother who spent nearly eight years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of her young son’s strangling death is finally and completely a free woman. On Monday, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said in a written statement her office would not retry 31-year-old Nicole Harris, saying it could not meet its burden of proof in the case, the Tribune reports. Read more after the jump….
We do not believe that it would be in the interest of justice to proceed on this matter.” Since being released from prison in February, Harris still wasn’t technically free, telling CBS Chicago she was “in limbo, not knowing what is going to happen. I was scared.”Harris’ four-year-old son Jaquari Dancy was found in his room with a fitted bedsheet cord around his neck in 2005 and Harris was charged after she says she gave a forced confession following a 27-hour interrogation by police which was not videotaped.
