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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...