A Minnesota man, Edgar Barrientos-Quintana, has been released from prison after serving 16 years for a murder conviction that prosecutors now say he did not commit. Barrientos-Quintana was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2009 for the killing of 18-year-old Jesse Mickelson in a drive-by shooting in Minneapolis.
In August, a conviction review unit under Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office released a report highlighting various faults in the case against Barrientos-Quintana. State court Judge John McBride recently vacated his conviction and ordered his release. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, after more than a decade, dismissed all charges against him.
