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...fabricated confession, as well as significant oversight and mishandling of the case by detectives, led to their false convictions in 1983. After a third trial, Hernandez’s sentence was reduced to 80 years in prison. Cruz, however, remained on death row until 1995, when both convictions were overturned??€”the result of a private investigation by journalists and independent lawyers which brought forth compelling DNA evidence and a confession implicating another...
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