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Former Georgia Tech and NBA standout Javaris Crittenton, sentenced to 23 years in the August 2011 shooting death of Julian Jones, was granted an early

In 1999, September Guy and Jill Polster — then two idealistic Georgia State University College of Law students — were told that an initiative to free wrongfully convicted people would never get off the ground in Georgia, where the conservative state's laws and attitudes have been firmly stacked against inmates. Twenty years after forming the Georgia Innocence Project in 2002, their efforts have defied the doubt and the odds.

Fulton County started a unit to make sure the right people are held accountable. Their work exonerated two men.

In the last two years, the state has created a website of earthquake resources and released a plan for unreinforced masonry buildings on the Wasatch Front.