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Top Stories: No physical evidence, false testimony – then 44 years in prison. Why Ronnie Long's shocking wrongful conviction doesn't surprise experts.

Ronnie Long's wrongful conviction might appear shocking: No physical evidence, false testimony, decades in prison. Experts say "it's not an outlier."

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Fri Jan 12 2024

 
 
Ronnie Long stands in a hallway at the Albemarle Correctional Institution in Albemarle, east of Charlotte, N.C., in 2007. Lawyers for Long, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years, say he's reached a $25 million combined settlement announced Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina. (Peter Weinberger/The Charlotte Observer via AP, File)
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