Two Chicagoans Wrongfully Imprisoned

23 Years May Be Released Today

States Attorney Foxx Opposes Their Release Despite DNA Match to Another
Suspect, a Serial Rapist

Proteges of Disgraced Cmdr Jon Burge Secured the Two Mens Convictions
CHICAGO, 8/7/2017 Following new DNA evidence pointing to another suspect, a serial rapist,
attorneys for two men wrongfully convicted and imprisoned 23 years for rape and murder will
file for their immediate release Monday at a 10 AM hearing at the Cook County Courthouse,
2600 S. California Avenue, Courtroom 606.
Nevest Coleman and Darryl Fulton were wrongfully convicted of the April 1994 rape and murder of Antwinica Bridgeman
in the citys Englewood neighborhood despite no physical evidence linking them to the crime. Coleman, then a 25-year-old
groundskeeper at Comiskey Park and father of a 2-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son, had never been arrested
before in his life. He lost both parents while he was in prison.

Recent DNA testing has matched semen on the victims underwear and sweatshirt, as well as DNA from underneath the
victims fingernails to that of a serial rapist, whose identity is currently undisclosed, and completely excluded Coleman and
Fulton.

Despite the new evidence and an ample history of misconduct by the detectives who conducted the original investigation,
Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx is opposing the release of Coleman and Fulton. The sole evidence against the
defendants at the time of the trial was Colemans coerced confession obtained by notorious Area 2 detectives. All of the
forensic evidence then available excluded Mr. Coleman and the two men implicated by his confession.

Detectives in Colemans case have been the subject of investigation after numerous convictions have unraveled due to a
pattern of false confessions in their cases. Bill Foley, the lead detective on Colemans case, and the detective who
obtained Colemans confession, has since been revealed as the detective who obtained a false confession from Harold
Richardson in the now-notorious Englewood Four case. Detectives Kenneth Boudreau, Jack Halloran, and James
OBrien, who also investigated the case, trained under the infamous Jon Burge, and have been accused by dozens of
men of coercing false confessions, including many Burge-era exonerees.

Coleman (48) is currently incarcerated at Hill Correctional Center and Fulton (51) is housed at Menard Correctional
Center.

Nevest Coleman is represented by Attorney Russell Ainsworth of The Exoneration Project. Darryl Fulton is represented by
Kathleen Zellner of The Law Offices of Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates.