MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis man is expected to be released from prison Thursday after serving 27 years for a murder he did not commit.

KARE 11 recently updated the case of Bryan Hooper, Sr. , convicted in 1998 of killing an elderly woman named Ann Prazniak and stuffing her body in a box. Prosecutors said Hooper and others then used Prazniak's apartment to do drugs and have sex.

Today a Hennepin County judge vacated Hooper's conviction after a woman who testified against him in the original trial confessed that she was the one who killed Prazniak. The Great Northern Innocence Project (GNIP), a legal advocacy organization that has worked for years to free Hooper, says Judge Marta Chou ruled that the conviction "was tainted by false evidence and that without this false testimony, the jur

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