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It's a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence for a killing he said he didn't commit.
Investigators who reopened the case in 2014 coerced a confession from another man, according to Andrea Miller, the legal director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project.
Ricky Dority is one of nearly 3,400 people who have been exonerated across the country since 1989, mostly over murder convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.
Ricky Dority is one of nearly 3,400 people who have been exonerated across the country since 1989, mostly over murder convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.
Ricky Dority is one of nearly 3,400 people who have been exonerated across the country since 1989, mostly over murder convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.