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Three years. Two trials. No witness. Philly man acquitted of murder says his case shows a flawed system.

“I got to see the worst conditions a prison could ever deliver," said Tremell Foster, 37, who was acquitted of killing his friend. "I been blessed to catch the door before it slammed shut on me.”

Tremell Foster with his fiancee Erica Jones and son Lennox at Franklin Square, near the Philadelphia Police Administration Building, two days after Foster was released from prison in Philadelphia earlier this month.
Tremell Foster with his fiancee Erica Jones and son Lennox at Franklin Square, near the Philadelphia Police Administration Building, two days after Foster was released from prison in Philadelphia earlier this month.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer