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Carlton Lewis was released from prison after more than three decades of wrongful conviction in New York. Credit: Malik Rainey/Innocence Project Carlton Lewis was exonerated earlier this month in Syracuse, New York, more than three decades after he was wrongly convicted and incarcerated for second-degree murder in 1992. New DNA testing results exclude Lewis from the scene of the crime and confirm his continued assertion of innocence. No crime scene evidence links Lewis to the murder. Three common contributing factors to wrongful conviction were present in the prosecution’s case against Lewis in 1992: the testimony of an incentivized witness; a...