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Convicted Felon Exonerated after 10 Years By Law Student Savant.
An Iraq war veteran convicted in the 2000 slaying of college student Michelle O’Keefe was released from state prison Thursday after prosecutors expressed doubts about his guilt.
"The people no longer have confidence in the conviction," Los Angeles Deputy Dist. Atty. Bobby Grace told a judge who ordered Raymond Lee Jennings released. Grace suggested that another person was the killer.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Ryan ordered that Jennings be released immediately from the courthouse but required electronic monitoring for Jennings because the case against him has not been dismissed.
Jennings, who worked as a security guard at the Palmdale parking lot where O’Keefe was found, smiled broadly as entered the courtroom.
"He was happy to know, after 11 years, his ordeal is