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Exonerated 2017

George Perrot

Year
2017
Where
Massachusetts
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
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What the record says

In 2017, George Perrot was exonerated after 30 years in prison when his conviction, based on flawed FBI hair analysis, was overturned.

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