New York Man Freed After 19 Years in Prison for Robbery He Didn’t Commit

New York Man Freed After 19 Years in Prison for Robbery He Didn’t Commit
Kenneth Windley (L), leaves a courthouse with his mother, Francina Windley Patterson, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on March 16, 2026. Jennifer Peltz/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—A man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a roughly $550 robbery was exonerated and freed Monday, after prosecutors said they now agree he didn’t commit the crime.

“It cost me 20 years, but they said they corrected it now. So that’s all that matters. So I’m good with that,” Kenneth Windley, 61, said as he left a Brooklyn courthouse, at liberty for the first time since 2007.