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Sept. 22, 2025


** Bryan Hooper Sr. Freed From Wrongful Conviction After ‘Sordid’ 27 Years in Prison
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Wrongfully convicted Bryan Hooper Sr. walked out of a Minnesota prison last week after serving 9,999 days of a life sentence for a murder charge that was dismissed by a judge on Sept. 4 after the state's key trial witness recently confessed to the murder.

Hooper Sr. addressed the public during a press conference. He thanked all of the legal support he received and stated “I can’t begin to explain what it felt like to be sent to prison for a crime you didn’t commit. But I knew one thing, that I was never gonna stop fighting for my freedom. And I took that time that I was given and I taught myself a plethora of subjects. I used to tell my mom, ‘mom, I’m just away in college right now.’ I’m trying to be a wizard at everything. But, I’m just happy to be home.”
READ FULL ARTICLE: Bryan Hooper Sr. Freed From Wrongful Conviction After ‘Sordid’ 27 Years in Prison [September 10, 2025] ([link removed])

In late July, the perpetrator of the vicious 1998 murder of 77-year-old Ann Prazniak confessed to the crime while in a Georgia state prison. Citing her newfound sobriety, a supportive prison system, a spiritual awakening and the crushing weight of carrying the secret of killing Ann Prazniak, Chalaka Young (then Chalaka Lewis) came forward to confess that she lied about Hooper and that she killed Prazniak.

“I publicly lied on you and will do all it takes to fix it so that you too may know the truth. I hurt you so bad and you can’t get back that time I stole from you but I can now tell the truth so that all will know that you truly was innocent,” said Young in a written statement ([link removed]) on July 28, 2025.
After 27 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Call For Bryan Hooper’s Murder Conviction to be Vacated [August 18, 2025] ([link removed])
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