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Francisco Benitez was 18 when he was arrested and later convicted in the 1989 fatal shootings of two teens. He got a certificate of innocence from the state Dec. 7.
Francisco Benitez was accused of killing Prudencio Cruz and William Sanchez in Humboldt Park. The charges were dropped after 30 years.
A man wrongfully imprisoned for more than three decades has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago, alleging police detectives framed him for a 1989 double murder in Humboldt Park.