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Willie Earl Green was sent to prison in 1983 for the murder of a woman in a South Los Angeles crack house, but after a change in testimony, authorities released him from prison in March 2008. The incriminating witness, Willie Finley, had placed Green at the scene and helped police identify him as the murderer. Mr.
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