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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Khalil Rushdan sits in a cafe in Phoenix, Ariz. on March 4, 2017. Rushdan spent 15 years in prison of his 25 year sentence and was exonerated on he grounds of prosecutorial vindictiveness in 2011.

Arizona justice: Freeing the wrongly imprisoned

Lauren Renteria March 24, 2017

In the fall of 2011, Khalil Rushdan walked out of prison a free man. Rushdan served 15 years of a 25-year sentence following his conviction for first-degree felony murder in 1997.  That year,...

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