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Exonerated 2008

Levon Brooks

Year
2008
Where
Mississippi
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
1
What the record says

Levon Brooks served 16 years in Mississippi prisons for a 1990 rape and murder of a three-year-old girl he didn't commit.

One-line description from the Innocence Project. Records change. The source is the authority.

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