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A TV drama about a British scandal in which hundreds of people were wrongly convicted of theft, destroying their lives, has had an astonishing impact.

Ronnie Wallace Long, now 68, spent more than four decades behind bars for a rape he did not commit

Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman say they fear they will die without compensation after they were acquitted of a 1983 murder.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Walter Gillespie opens his fridge and shows his meagre supplies — a loaf of bread, eggs, peanut butter and juice. There are also a few cans of beans stacked in a cupboard in the 80-year-old's Saint John, N.B., apartment.

While the new public defender plans to keep the path of her predecessor, the district attorney is hoping to forge a new trail.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Walter Gillespie opens his fridge and shows his meagre supplies — a loaf of bread, eggs, peanut butter and juice. There are also a few cans of beans stacked in a cupboard in the 80-year-old's Saint John, N.B., apartment.

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Christopher Tapps death in October, which originally was believed to be accidental, is being investigated as a homicide.

It wasn't until the Duke Law Innocence Project took on the case that it came to light that 43 fingerprints from the scene did not match Long's.

A man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years has reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina involving a lawsuit accusing authorities of misconduct, the man's lawyers said Tuesday.