Man who claimed innocence in 1981 Abingdon murders says he’s ‘finally free’ It took 42 years for one Maryland man to finally get exonerated from a double murder he didn’t commit. “Quite honestly until you have had your freedom taken, you have no concept of what it is like to be free,” John Huffington said. Huffington was convicted of murdering a woman and her boyfriend on Memorial Day in 1981. He never committed the murders but spent 32 years in prison, 10 of those on death row. In October of 1999, it was revealed an FBI agent who testified against Huffington at trial was unqualified. One of the key pieces of evidence in the case was a sliver of hair with the question being who it belonged to. The FBI agent swore under oath it was Huffington’s, but the U.S. Department of Justice said DNA examination was not the expertise of that agent. According to Huffington’s attorneys, Casilly knew this to be the case but withheld it from the defense during trial. Huffington’s team later as...