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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steve Karnowski

Man imprisoned as teen for flower shop killing is released after judge throws out his conviction

© 2023 Aaron Lavinsky /Star Tribune

A 35-year-old man who was sent to prison for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop was released Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his conviction rested was unreliable.

Marvin Haynes, who was 16 at the time of the killing, was released from prison shortly afterward the judge's ruling.

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