A man whose conviction was overturned by a DeKalb County judge earlier this year is asking to be declared innocent of the crime. Attorneys from a free legal clinic at the University of Chicago that represents the wrongfully convicted, filed a petition in DeKalb County requesting a court hearing for Jack McCullough.
McCullough was convicted in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison in connection with the the 1957 kidnapping and slaying of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph.
Attorneys say McCullough didn't commit the crime for which he spent nearly five years in prison, and he wants to move on with his life.
Earlier this year, a DeKalb County judge vacated McCullough's conviction and dismissed charges, but declined to declare him innocent, saying he didn't believe prosecutors had ill motives.
