A man wrongly convicted of murder has been released from jail after 20 years, after his twin brother confessed to the crime.

Kevin Dugar, 44, was finally released from Cook County Jail, in Chicago, on Wednesday, nine years after his twin brother Karl Smith, also 44, confessed.

'I have to get it off my chest before it kills me,' Smith wrote.

'So I'll just come clean and pray you can forgive me.'

Despite the confession, a judge denied Dugar a retrial in 2018 as Smith admitted to the murder while serving a 99-year sentence for a 2008 home invasion that left a six-year-old child with a gunshot wound to the head.

The judge found Smith's confessional 'completely unreliable,' as the two reportedly used to pretend to be each other and said there was 'a pattern of misdirection and deceit.'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10450499/amp/Convicted-murderer-spent-20-years-prison-released-TWIN-confessed-killing.html

Dugar's lawyer Rob Safer (right) said they hope they don't retrial his clients case.

Dugar, 44, was released from Cook County Jail, in Chicago, on Wednesday.

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Is he going to complete the sentence or start afresh?

If you were the wrongfully accused person, would you forgive your bro?

'I have to get it off my chest before it kills me,' Smith wrote.

'So I'll just come clean and pray you can forgive me.'

Come out clean after 20 yrs ?

With a brother like that, who needs an enemy

Person wey dey jail sef fresh pass him brother wey dey out

Dat twin evil sha

Mehn!


I pray these kinds of events do not befall us. So traumatic.

The court should compensate this guy!

too late to confess... but then again, he did confess 9yrs earlier, aka when the brotha was on his 11th year in jail

iamyemiakins:
Person wey dey jail sef fresh pass him brother wey dey out

na true you talk, if an naija, him for don turn to skeleton

Plan work, 50/50

Hushpuppy mug shot 18yrs later. Oya na

This stuff is material for a true crime novel.

May we not be wrongly accused especially in Nigeria.

Holly Gram


I SWEAR DOWN



I no go MIND weda na my TWIN BROTHER...



Na to use my old KALA take BLAST em BLOKOS from d left angle side so dat d BLOKOS go SCATTER WELL WELL..



I SWEAR DOWN



I no go GREE ooo



WTF MAN

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A man wrongly convicted of murder has been released from jail after 20 years, after his twin brother confessed to the crime.

Kevin Dugar, 44, was finally released from Cook County Jail, in Chicago, on Wednesday, nine years after his twin brother Karl Smith, also 44, confessed.

'I have to get it off my chest before it kills me,' Smith wrote.

'So I'll just come clean and pray you can forgive me.'

Despite the confession, a judge denied Dugar a retrial in 2018 as Smith admitted to the murder while serving a 99-year sentence for a 2008 home invasion that left a six-year-old child with a gunshot wound to the head.

The judge found Smith's confessional 'completely unreliable,' as the two reportedly used to pretend to be each other and said there was 'a pattern of misdirection and deceit.'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10450499/amp/Convicted-murderer-spent-20-years-prison-released-TWIN-confessed-killing.html

African Americans are always wrongfully convicted! Thank God for check and balances that now exists.

There is a pattern here, thay have always been pretending to be the other and one had to go to jail for the crime of another, truth could be that they both know and carry out the crime, and the other also want to carry on make the other rest. And it could also be as the narrative goes, na only them sabi the actual truth...

Damn!!!

Two decades wasted! Being accused wrongly is very hurting and shameful. Being locked up is one of the things I fear most in life.

iamyemiakins:
Is he going to complete the sentence or start afresh?

He's gonna start afresh.

Treasure17:
May we not be wrongly accused especially in Nigeria.

Rightfully said. The system is fvck3d here beyond adjustment.

chatinent:
Mehn!


I pray these kinds of events do not befall us. So traumatic.

The court should compensate this guy!

He's gonna be compensated.

philGeo:
Plan work, 50/50

Planned work? Do you think going to prison is something enjoyable especially when it's a murder case? You need to read more on the U.S. judicial system and how the inmates treat murderers.

I just pray the right person pays for the crime
but the "wrongfully convicted one" is looking fresher than the twin brother

In many racist states both men would get locked up till further notice.

Hmmm, Twins and their wahala no b here

The 2nd twin was convicted and sentenced to a 99 year jail term. It doesn't make sense for the two brothers to be in jail so he confessed to his brother's crime. He will now serve his own 99 plus his brother's own while his brother walks free

Damn!!!

20 wasted years

May God continue to protect us from family like enemy...

Hey

WTF man nothing more painful than being punished for a crime you didn't commit... He will hate his bro for life.

I smell fish,

Maybe they want to split the sentence,
You serve half and he serve half!

Never trust TWINS