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Lee Harris died just as he was embarking on the final chapter of a life interrupted. Harris spent 33 years in prison, convicted of murder. During his decades of incarceration, he obtained a college associate degree, volunteered in prison ministries and directed gospel choirs, all while trying to prove his innocence. Eight months before his death last Thanksgiving at age 68, the Chicago man ...

Lee Harris, who spent more than three decades in prison in the murder of a Gold Coast woman before being exonerated and released earlier this year, filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging Chicago police officers framed him for the murder. Harris, a former resident of the Cabrini-Green housing projects, was sent to prison in 1992 on a 90-year sentence after being convicted in the 1989 murder of Dana ...