Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for everyone ... Soto and his cousin, David Ayala, second from right, served 42 years in prison for a double slaying that ...

Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for everyone ... vacated the convictions of James Soto, 62, and David Ayala, 60. On Thursday evening, the cousins walked out ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It has been 42 years since two men went to prison for a murder they said they did not commit. Those convictions were thrown out Thursday. Their family members are overjoyed.

So, David Ayala was hauled off to a ... that I had past convictions he released it to the news media," he said. It backfired, and Aramis Ayala won in a landslide, taking office in January 2017 ...