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For those wrongly convicted, Minnesota to make good

Roger Lee Olsen doesn’t talk much about what it was like to spend two years in the Stillwater prison labeled a child rapist.

“I was supposed to have been killed in there, that much I will tell you,” he said, his jaw trembling.

Olsen was freed in 2008 once Houston County investigators discovered evidence that led them to believe his accuser, a former stepdaughter, made up the story. But even back in society, his life remains in shambles. Still living in his hometown of La Crescent, he’s unemployable, and his mental and physical health have deteriorated. Worst of all, he said, no one — not the prosecutors, the police or the state of Minnesota — has ever said, “We’re sorry.”

http://www.startribune.com/for-those-wrongly-convicted-minnesota-to-make-good/350294061/

 

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