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Exonerated 2022

Barry Jacobson

Year
2022
Where
Massachusetts
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
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In 2022, Barry Jacobson was exonerated of setting fire to his vacation home in Richmond, Massachusetts more than 40 years earlier.

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