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I watched a documentary a while back that followed several guys in the same situation where they were wrongly accused then eventually released and what their lives were like after it.
Like this guy most states don't even expunge your record. One guy was supposedly a rapist (he was picked up because he had a red shirt on, the DNA didn't match, but the girl said it was him. Eventually they got the guy who the DNA matched and he looked a little bit like the guy that had gotten charged. He served 13 years) and his record stilled showed him as a convicted rapist. He still has to put that he is a convicted felon on job applications. He says he carries around the papers showing the overturning of the charges so he can explain it if he happens to get stopped or questioned.
Another was a similar situation in Florida where a guy was found to be the wrong guy, but he ended up staying in jail 1 1/2 years longer because the DA kept fighting his release on technicalities even though he admitted this guy was innocent. When the guy finally got out the DA tried to tell him there was no hard feelings that he was just doing his job. I don't think anyone would have blamed him if he punched that dude.
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