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July 25, 2024Missouri |  By: AP

Missouri inmate still incarcerated despite court order

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For the second time in weeks, a Missouri prison has ignored a court order to release an inmate whose murder conviction was overturned. St. Louis Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser on Monday tossed out Dunn's conviction
for a 1990 killing. Dunn, 52, has spent 33 years behind bars, and he remained. Dunn wasn't released after his conviction was overturned because Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey appealed the judge's ruling.

Dunn's situation is similar to what happened to Hemme, 64, who spent 43 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a woman in St. Joseph in 1980. A judge on June 14 cited evidence of "actual innocence" and overturned her conviction. She had been the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman known in the U.S., according to the Midwest Innocence Project, which worked to free Hemme and Dunn.