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Friday, November 04, 2016

Man's life renewed after law clinic frees him from prison

A man who was serving a life sentence in prison is now starting life all over again.

When an inmate wrote a letter to the University of Maryland law school clinic with the words, "please, help," so began a journey that led to his release from prison nearly three decades after he was first locked up.

Mark Grant, 48, spent more than a quarter century in prison for a murder that nearly all the original parties now agree he did not commit.

"I often times ponder back like, ’Wow, I actually went through that? I went through that?’" Grant said.

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