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ck4829

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Mon Aug 15, 2022, 11:58 AM Aug 2022

25 years after wrongful conviction, a man is free from Angola

NEW ORLEANS — Eyewitness News met Cedric Dent the day he returned home to New Orleans after spending 25 years in prison, held behind bars at one of Americans toughest prisons.

Dent remembers the day his life changed.

"I was a working man, I was taking care of my family all of a sudden things went wrong in my life and they took my life away from me,” Dent said. "I got locked up when I was 23 and I am 47 now, they took my good years away from me, for something I didn’t do.”

On Monday, after more than two decades, he was exonerated for a crime he didn’t commit.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crime/25-years-after-wrongful-conviction-man-free-from-angola/289-5be32c07-07cd-4bdf-8d91-423aafe22615

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25 years after wrongful conviction, a man is free from Angola (Original Post) ck4829 Aug 2022 OP
The just us system is largely based on how much $$$ you have MarcA Aug 2022 #1

MarcA

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1. The just us system is largely based on how much $$$ you have
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 12:18 PM
Aug 2022

Or Don't. It Allows the "authorities" to get someone without consequences and since it is Allowed, it will be done.

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