CHICAGO -- The Chicago White Sox have welcomed back a former groundskeeper who spent 23 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
The Chicago Tribune reports that DNA evidence led prosecutors last year to vacate the conviction of 49-year-old Nevest Coleman. He'd been convicted in a 1994 rape and murder.
He was released from prison in November, and this month, a Cook County judge granted him a certificate of innocence.
Coleman's friends and family reached out to the White Sox after his release. The team offered him a job interview and then welcomed him back to the job.