A Chicago man has been in prison 20 years for murder though 6 witnesses said he didn’t do it. His lawyers allege police misconduct.
Antonio Porter during an interview with the Tribune at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill on Feb. 27, 2018.
A man walked up and joined the game. Andrews recognized the man, whom he knew as “Black” from the Far South Side area where his mother lived, he said. Police arrested Andrews at 7 p.m. Aug. 28. Nine hours later, at 4:15 a.m., authorities took a statement from the teenager. From Andrews, police said they learned the shooter’s nickname, Black, and put the alias into a computer database. Cross-referencing the nickname with people in Andrews’ mother’s neighborhood, police found Porter.
That height conflicts with the Illinois Department of Corrections listing of 5 foot 9. His mother, Rosemary Porter, previously told the Tribune he’s 5 foot 8. When a Tribune reporter met with Porter in prison, he appeared to be about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9. At one point, when the prosecutor pressed Andrews to confirm his previous account given to police, Andrews responded, “I swear to God, you all crooked.”Burns testified he told police in August 2002 that the gunman was a “skinny male.” Brooks testified that Porter resembled the gunman, but “that can’t be the guy.” In response, the detective told him the suspect had “gotten fatter,” Burns testified.
Since then, Porter has been locked up but maintains his innocence. In 2015, prosecutors agreed to conduct DNA tests on items at the crime scene, including a pair of dice, an empty glass of Hennessy cognac and a bottle of beer. That round proved useless in assessing Porter’s case, though, because there was limited genetic material.
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