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Okay, so little leaders lately we've been talking about whatever we feel like before we get into listener emails. And this week I came across this article about these twin brothers written by Emmett Jones for Fox 32 Chicago.

This was just one of many articles that I found that talked about this, but I feel like they did a good job summing it up. And it just blew my mind. I had never heard of this story before. It says Chicago man who spent nearly 20 years in prison for murder released after twin brother confesses to crime. And I was like, what?

It's a real life instance of having an evil twin. It says Chicago a convicted felon who spent nearly 20 years in prison was released after his identical twin brother turned himself in for the crime.

Is that not insane? 20 years is a long time to be in prison. A very long time especially when you're innocent. It says Kevin Dugger was released from Chicago's Cook County Jail on Wednesday after a motion for bond was released.

In 2003 Dugger was convicted for a gang related murder in Chicago and his twin brother Carl Smith confessed to being the culprit 10 years later in a letter that he wrote to Dugger.

Okay, which was so crazy to me because I'm like, why did he spend 20 years in jail if 10 years into it? He got this confession letter from his brother.

Like why would it take that long? I mean, I get that they'd probably have to do a retrial and all this stuff, but I don't know. Well, continue on with the article. It says he wrote the letter to his brother. It said, I have to get it off my chest before it kills me. Smith wrote in a 2013 letter to his imprisoned brother as he confessed to the crime.

So I'll just come clean and pray you can forgive me. Although a judge denied a retrial for Dugger in 2018 questioning the credibility of the confession, the decision was later reversed by the court of appeal.

Dugger's attorney, Ron Safer, argued that a jury would determine a different outcome given the new evidence to the case.

Absolutely.

He was convicted for his involvement in a 2008 home invasion in armed robbery that left a six-year-old boy shot in the head. He was already serving a 99-year prison sentence for his participation.

So he was already serving life. So the brother that didn't go to jail for murder was serving another life sentence.

So I could see why people would be like, well, maybe he was just covering for his brother because he's like, well, I'm already in here for life.

Might as well take one for both of us. But luckily, hopefully this guy really was innocent and is now out. It says Kevin Dugger is set to live in a residential transitional facility for 90 days as a condition of his release.

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