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A photo essay produced in 2007 as part of project to exonerate Erick Daniels by Independent Weekly staff writer Mosi Secret. Daniels was eventually exonerated and released from prison in 2008 after serving seven years for a crime he did not commit. Read more: http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/finally-free/Content?oid=1211101
  • Erick Daniels inside the Foothills Correctional Institution outside of Morganton, NC, where he was incarcerated for five years.

  • Erick Daniels' mother, Karen Daniel, prior to his release.

  • Attorney Carlos Mahoney, who took over Erick Daniels' appeals in 2004, worked tirelessly to help Daniel's prove his innocence. On Sept. 18, 2009, Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson dismissed all charges against Erick Daniels, who has served seven years in prison for a robbery he did not commit.

  • Al Singer, former director of the Child Advocacy Commission of Durham, represented Daniels in juvenile court. "A lot of kids I worked with, I was scared of," Singer says. "Erick was affectionate. It was hard for me to imagine him doing this. I didn't get fooled by many kids."

  • Kam Russell says he hung out in Few Gardens with Erick Daniels. He was the first person police suspected in Ruth Brown's robbery.

  • Kam Russell says he hung out in Few Gardens with Erick Daniels. He was the first person police suspected in Ruth Brown's robbery.

  • Erick Daniels inside the Foothills Correctional Institution outside of Morganton, NC, where he was incarcerated for five years.

  • Erick Daniels inside the Foothills Correctional Institution outside of Morganton, NC, where he was incarcerated for five years.

  • Erick Daniels inside the Foothills Correctional Institution outside of Morganton, NC, where he was incarcerated for five years.

  • Still shackled, Daniels leans over the railing to hug his mother, Karen Daniel, and aunt, Denise Spivey after Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson had declared Daniels innocent, wrongly convicted of robbing a police department employee, for which he had been sentenced to 10 to 14 years in prison. At 22, Daniels went home for the first time since eighth grade.

  • Still shackled, Daniels leans over the railing to hug his aunt, Denise Spivey, after Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson had declared Daniels innocent, wrongly convicted of robbing a police department employee, for which he had been sentenced to 10 to 14 years in prison. At 22, Daniels went home for the first time since eighth grade.

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