After more than a decade behind bars, Edgar Barrientos-Quintana is a free man. He had been serving a life sentence for a ...

After serving 16 years behind bars, a Minnesota man was released from prison after a judge vacated his murder conviction for ...

Barrientos was initially found guilty of the murder of 18-year-old Jesse Mickelson, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in ...

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty spoke on Tuesday about the recent order to dismiss charges and overturn the conviction ...

Barrientos-Quintana's attorney failed to effectively represent him and prosecutors didn't disclose favorable evidence, ...

The family of victim Jesse Mickelson stood with Edgar Barrientos-Quintana and thanked supporters for fighting for his release ...

Edgar Barrientos-Quintana was wrongly convicted in 2009 and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2008 murder of ...

Edgar Barrientos-Quintana was found guilty in 2009, but earlier this year, the attorney general’s conviction review unit ...

The Conviction Review Unit has a staff of around five people, who began looking into cases in the summer of 2021.

You know it’s going to happen, but the system is so slow,” Edgar Barrientos-Quintana said at a news conference Tuesday. “Happy to be out here. It’s the best week and more to come.” ...

Minnesotan Edgar Barrientos-Quintana has been exonerated due to a "weak" investigation filled with misleading evidence.

A prosecutor says a Minnesota man has been released from prison after serving 16 years for a murder he did not commit ...