Juan Roberto Melendez was released from Union Correctional...

Juan Roberto Melendez was released from Union Correctional Institution after having spent 17 years and 8 months on Florida's death row in Raiford for a murder to which another man had confessed. Following the reversal of Melendez's conviction, prosecutors decided today not to retry the case and to drop all the charges against Juan Roberto Melendez. Melendez was sentenced to death in 1984 for the murder of Delbert Baker. In December 2001, Florida Circuit Court Judge Barbara Fleischer overturned Melendez's capital murder conviction after determining that prosecutors in his original trial withheld critical evidence.