Innocence Project OR: Oregon exoneree officially declared innocent after 1986 wrongful murder conviction
SALEM, Ore. (KPTV) – A man wrongfully convicted of murder is celebrating after he became the third person to ever receive a certificate of innocence from the state of Oregon.
In the 80s, Santiago Ventura Morales was wrongfully convicted of a murder in Sandy, Ore.
While that conviction was overturned in the 90s, Morales has still been fighting for decades to get a certificate of innocence, basically saying the state was wrong to press charges against him.
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