MINNEAPOLIS — A woman incarcerated in Georgia has confessed to a 27-year-old murder in Minneapolis. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Tuesday, Aug. 12, that it’s long past time for the man who’s spent half his life in prison for the crime to be released.

In 1998, a judge sentenced Brian Hooper Sr., now 54, to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years for the killing of Ann Prazniak. But in a handwritten confession and multiple interviews with law enforcement and prosecutors, Chalaka Young admitted killing Prazniak and lying on the witness stand during Hooper’s trial.

At a Tuesday news conference, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said that her office’s Conviction Integrity Unit had already been reviewing Hooper’s case when they got word of Young’s admiss

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