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Exonerated 2011

Thomas Haynesworth

Year
2011
Where
Virginia
Source
Innocence Project
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Thomas Haynesworth is one of eight people whose story is featured in the Innocence Project-inspired Netflix docuseries “The Innocence Files."

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