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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2017 file photo, Wilbert Jones, center, leaves East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with Emily Maw, director of Innocence Project New Orleans, left, and Kia Hayes, IPNO staff attorney, in Baton Rouge, La. A legal ordeal that has dragged on for close to half a century is over for Jones, a man wrongfully convicted in a 1971 rape. The advocacy group Innocence Project New Orleans said Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, that prosecutors in Baton Rouge officially dismissed charges against Jones in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse at Baton Rouge General Hospital. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Official exoneration for man freed last year in 1971 rape

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

State seeks to reinstate 1974 rape conviction against man

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FILE- This 1999 file image scanned from a contact sheet provided by the Innocent Project shows Wilbert Jones during a portrait session. Jones, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, could be freed Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. State District Court Judge Richard Anderson threw out Jones’ conviction in the rape of a nurse on Oct. 31, saying authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated Jones decades ago and the case against him was “weak, at best.” (Deborah Luster/The Innocence Project via AP, File)

The Latest: Louisiana man freed after rape conviction tossed

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE- This 1999 file image scanned from a contact sheet provided by the Innocent Project shows Wilbert Jones during a portrait session. Jones, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, could be freed Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. State District Court Judge Richard Anderson threw out Jones’ conviction in the rape of a nurse on Oct. 31, saying authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated Jones decades ago and the case against him was “weak, at best.” (Deborah Luster/The Innocence Project via AP, File)

‘God is so good’ says man freed after 5 decades in prison

By STACEY PLAISANCE - Associated Press

FILE- This 1999 file image scanned from a contact sheet provided by the Innocent Project shows Wilbert Jones during a portrait session. Jones, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, could be freed Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. State District Court Judge Richard Anderson threw out Jones’ conviction in the rape of a nurse on Oct. 31, saying authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated Jones decades ago and the case against him was “weak, at best.” (Deborah Luster/The Innocence Project via AP, File)

The Latest: Man to be freed after 1971 conviction tossed

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FILE- This 1999 file image scanned from a contact sheet provided by the Innocent Project shows Wilbert Jones during a portrait session. Jones, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, could be freed Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. State District Court Judge Richard Anderson threw out Jones’ conviction in the rape of a nurse on Oct. 31, saying authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated Jones decades ago and the case against him was “weak, at best.” (Deborah Luster/The Innocence Project via AP, File)

Louisiana man to be freed after judge tosses 1971 rape case

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Judge tosses Louisiana man’s decades-old rape conviction

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Hearing ordered for man serving life sentence for 1971 rape

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Man seeking new trial in 1971 rape claims state hid evidence

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press