Watching a Chicago Cubs game is a top priority for a man who spent more than 16 years in prison for a killing he didn't commit, his lawyer said.

"He's a rabid Cubs fan," Steve Drizin said of his client, Thaddeus "T.J." Jimenez, who was arrested at age 13 for the 1993 gang-related killing of 19-year-old Eric Morro.

Jimenez has been "completely overwhelmed with the idea of freedom" since his release Friday, Drizin said. The lawyer said he believes Jimenez, now 30, to be the youngest person in U.S. history to be wrongly convicted and exonerated.

"Slowly but surely, he's trying to stick his toe into the real world," Drizin said.

Jimenez's release from Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg came after witnesses to the slaying recanted their testimony and detectives analyzed a recording of a man admitting to the shooting.

An Indiana man, Juan Carlos Torres, 30, is awaiting extradition to Illinois for Morro's death, Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez told the Chicago Sun-Times in a story published Tuesday.