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FILE - In this June 22, 2017 photo, John Floyd stands in front of the Hale Boggs Federal Building and Courthouse in New Orleans. The New Orleans district attorney made a decision Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018, that he is ending efforts to prosecute Floyd, who was freed in 2017 after spending 36 years behind bars for a murder he insists he didn't commit. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer, File)

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John Floyd smiles as he leaves the Hale Boggs Federal Building and Courthouse in New Orleans, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Floyd, who was imprisoned for 36 years, walked free Thursday after a federal judge threw out his murder conviction and life sentence for a newspaper editor's stabbing in the French Quarter of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer)

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