Marvin Haynes, 36, was released after being wrongfully convicted of the 2004 murder of 55-year-old Randy Sherer Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears ...

Haynes was sentenced to life in prison when he was 17 for the murder of flower shop employee Randy Sherer. He always maintained his innocence, and no physical evidence tied him to the crime.

was charged and later convicted of killing Randy Sherer at a Minneapolis flower shop despite his repeated claims that he was never there. He was just 16 years old at the time of the murder.