Robert Johnson will find out whether the state wants to retry his case or if he'll finally be able to move on.

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After nearly 30 years in prison for a murder he maintains he did not commit, Friday was Robert Johnson's first day of freedom, a day after a judge vacated his 1996 murder conviction.

Robert Johnson was 16 years old when he was arrested and sentenced to 80 years in prison. He was let out of the Cook County Jail Thursday evening after his conviction was vacated by a judge.

"My Grandma, she used to always say, 'Well Robert I hope I'm here when you get out,' and I use to always say, 'Grandma don't say that. You going to be here,'" Johnson said. He stayed true to his word.

Robert Johnson was 16 years old in 1996, when police took him from his grandmother’s brick two-flat on the South Side of Chicago without her permission. Although Johnson never confessed to any ...