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M.B. Mack

Wrongly Convicted Woman Who Spent Decades Behind Bars Officially Free After Missouri Stops Trying to Overturn Exoneration

Kansas City advocates react to Sandra Hemme's release from a Missouri prison (Credit: KSHB 41 / Hemme Legal Team / screenshot)

The longest-incarcerated wrongly convicted woman in U.S. history who spent more than four decades behind bars is officially free after Missouri stopped trying to overturn her exoneration.

Sandra Hemme is officially free after Missouri courts and prosecutors concluded their legal challenges to her exoneration, five months after a judge overturned her 1985 murder conviction, according to KCUR.

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