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Leonard Allan Cure, freed after a wrongful conviction, is shot dead in a traffic stop

Leonard Allan Cure spent 16 years in prison after a wrongful conviction by a Florida jury. (Innocence Project of Florida)

Leonard Allan Cure spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction, fighting relentlessly for his release before he was finally freed three years ago. On Monday, he was killed by a Georgia sheriff during a traffic stop on his way home from visiting his mother.

Cure, who was Black, was pulled over in Camden County near the Florida border by a sheriff's deputy at about 7:30 a.m., according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The agency is conducting an independent probe into the fatal shooting by the officer.

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