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Wrongfully Convicted Tenn. Man Fights for Compensation After More Than 3 Decades in Prison
A Tennessee man is fighting to receive rightful compensation after wrongfully spending more than 30 years in prison, CBS News reports. In 1978, Lawrence McKinney was convicted by a Memphis, Tenn., jury of rape and burglary. The victim identified McKinney as one of two men who attacked her in her bedroom, and he was sentenced…