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Criminal

Sep. 25, 2009

A Decade of Freeing the Innocent

On Friday, Cal Western will mark the Innocence Project's anniversary with a reception at the campus that will include three innocent men it exonerated and helped free.

By Pat Broderick
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - Painful, scary and boring. That's how John Stoll described the 20 years he spent locked up for crimes he never committed.

"It's a mixture of emotions, swinging back and forth," said Stoll, who was convicted of 17 counts of child molestation and sentenced to 40 years behind bars. He was released in 2004, after the California Innocence Project worked to overturn his conviction. "I had never bee...

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