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Exonerated 2002

Marvin Anderson

Year
2002
Where
Virginia
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
1
What the record says

Marvin Anderson served 15 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of robbery, sodomy, abduction, and rape.

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