Release of convicted rapist draws a crowd to St. Paul meeting

About 80 St. Paul residents turned out Wednesday night for a tense public hearing on the imminent release of a twice-convicted rapist into their neighborhood.

The St. Paul Police Department and state officials unveiled details of a plan to release Oliver Lenell Dority, 50, currently confined in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP), to a large halfway house in the Summit-University district.

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