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Two Men Wrongfully Convicted Of 1993 Murder To Go Free
A Cook County judge has ordered the immediate release of two men who spent 23 years in prison, after prosecutors agreed to dismiss all charges against them. Jose Montanez, 49, and Armando Serrano, 44, were convicted in the 1993 murder of Rodrigo Vargas, whose body was found in a van parked near a Chicago elementary school, but the two have long contended they are innocent. Attorneys from the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago said Montanez and Serrano were framed by Chicago Police Det. Reynaldo Guevara.
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