CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) - It took no time for a Chesterfield County jury to convict Oscar Fortune of murder. After a week-long trial in March 2006, the 32-year-old Marlboro County man was hauled off to a state prison to start work on his 37-year sentence.

Fortune would have been 69 years old if he ever walked out of prison again.

It was no secret that Fortune shot and killed Anthony Shields in the parking lot of the Cheraw, S.C., Huddle House on Dec. 23, 2001. That wasn't even a contested fact at trial.

Fortune admitted he fired five shots into Shields that night, but that he did so to save his and his cousin's lives.

Fortune was at home sleeping that night. His trial produced no evidence showing he was anywhere near Cheraw and had no intention of being anywhere nea

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