He recently bought a used car and has begun taking classes in political science and sociology at DePaul University, which offered him a one-year scholarship. He’s divorcing the woman he married three years ago while he was on death row. He has regained much of the weight he lost in prison and lives in a modest Chicago apartment with his fiancee. By the time he was finally acquitted last year, Cruz’s case became known as example of justice gone horribly wrong: sworn police testimony turned out to be lies, informants recanted, an assistant state attorney general resigned rather than help fight one of Cruz’s appeals.Ĭruz’s new life isn’t all bad. ``They changed everything _ kind of like they reinvented a brain and put it inside me.″Ĭruz, 32, was twice sentenced to death for the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. What I live now is what they gave me,″ Cruz said in an interview published in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Now, four months after being released, he is still struggling to piece together a life outside prison. CHICAGO (AP) _ Rolando Cruz spent more than a decade on death row for a murder he didn’t commit.
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