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U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen ruled Katie Garding did not receive effective assistance of counsel during her trial in 2011 in Missoula County District Court.

A correction was issued on Feb. 23. The original headline said "Two UM Law students help wrongfully convicted man gain parole." The FBI said the kind of evidence Pease was

A Billings man, who spent 39 years in prison for a homicide conviction, has been granted parole after two University of Montana students and the Montana Innocence Project picked up

"Since the day I went to prison I have been trying to prove to all of you I was not the person who committed this crime," Katie Garding said.

Cody Marble spent nearly half his life in the criminal justice system for a crime he did not commit.  At 17, he was arrested and placed in the Missoula County Juvenile Detention Center for marijuana possession. After spending five months in the center completing a youth drug treatment program, Marble was released. Four days later, he was arrested and charged with the rape of a 13-year-old inmate. But the rape never happened. False testimonies and ineffective assistance of counsel led to his wrongful incarceration. After his conviction in 2002 and probationary release in 2005, Marble’s...