Maurice Sykes spent most of his time behind bars trying to convince anyone who’d listen that he was wrongfully imprisoned.

After 11 years, the D.C. Appeals Court agreed. A three-judge panel found in 2006 that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia withheld evidence until the last moment that could have proven Sykes’ innocence in the slaying of diplomat’s son outside the Bulgarian Embassy in Northwest Washington.

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