Lizzie Kaboski

INDIANAPOLIS — Nicky Jackson received a call on a Saturday morning in 2021 from Timmy Donald, project manager at the Center for Justice and Exoneration Network, known as the CJEN. Donald wanted to send her a receipt from the fast food restaurant where he'd eaten the night before around the time First Midwest Bank in Gary was robbed and a security guard was killed.

First Midwest, now Old National Bank, was the location where Donald did his banking since he'd been released from prison four years before. He was exonerated in 2016 after 24 years in prison for a robbery and murder he'd been wrongfully convicted of committing. He's saved every receipt since he got out of prison, almost as an alibi.

"It hit me," Jackson said. "That he was so scared they were going to think he di

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