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DNA Frees Missouri Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 17 Years

HeadlineAug 26, 2003

And this news from St. Louis: a man who has spent 17 years in prison was released yesterday after DNA tests proved he was innocent. Lonnie Erby had been sentenced to 115 years in prison for committing three rapes. Erby said after being released “I’ve got dreams, you know. I want to go places and do things that I never got the chance to do.”

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