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Man found not guilty of killing toddler

After three and a half hours of deliberations, jurors found Danzeal Finley not guilty of murder in connection to the 2010 killing of 20-month-old Cynia Cole.

Finley was acquitted Friday despite being identified by the girl's mother Alberta as the man who fired into a white Cutlass in which her boyfriend Jerome Hendricks and three daughters sat on a South Side street.

"She is a mother," public defender Brendan Max told jurors in his closing arguments. "Of course she thinks she knows what she saw. Of course she is certain, but that doesn't make it a fact."

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