In a trend that has increased over the years, the National Registry of Exonerations reported an astoundingly high amount of exonerations last year, chiefly among minorities.

Alan Newton spent years in a legal battle with the city after he was released from jail in 2006, the NY Daily News reports.

People serving time after being wrongfully accused is nothing new, but every exoneration feels just as freeing as the last.

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After they were wrongfully convicted for the murder of an 11-year-old girl and subsequently forced to spend over 30 years in prison, 51-year-old Henry McCollum…