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Man freed after 44 years in prison for wrongful conviction of raping woman

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A man has been released from prison 44 years after he claimed he was wrongly convicted of rape. Ronnie Long, 64, was accused of raping Sarah Bost, 54, at knifepoint in her home in Concord, North Carolina on the evening of April 25, 1976.

He was sentenced to 80 years in prison for first-degree rape and first-degree burglary. What followed were decades of appeals for his conviction to be overturned.

Then, in 2005, Ronnie filed a petition to review biological evidence from the scene and to submit DNA testing. It then emerged that hair samples and clothing fibers didn't match Ronnie, and it was later discovered that none of the evidence was ever shared with the defense during his trial in 1976.

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