Ending a long legal battle, Minnesota high court says sex offender must be released from MSOP

Thomas Ray Duvall, a serial rapist who has spent more than 30 years locked up for a series of violent rapes of teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s, has been approved for conditional release from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP).

In a one-sentence ruling Tuesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected a request by the Minnesota Department of Human Services to review Duvall’s petition for conditional discharge, which had been approved in July by an appeals court panel.

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