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Attorney Jason Gichner of the Tennessee Innocence Project

A 74-year-old woman spent 27 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. This week she was exonerated

By Sara Smart and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Tennessee woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her great-niece and spent 27 years in prison, was exonerated this week. On June 26, 1987, Joyce Watkins, now 74, and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie Dunn, went to pick up Watkins four-year-old great-niece, Brandi, in Kentucky, according

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