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Centurion Ministries and Exonerations

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"McCloskey labors to exonerate innocent prisoners," is the title of a report in New Jersey's Star-Ledger written by Sarah Golin.In August, Daryl Burton was sitting in a jail cell in Jefferson City, Mo., serving the 24th year of his sentence for the shooting death of a gas station attendant. On Saturday, Burton stood in a leafy Princeton backyard under a white tent with about 125 other partygoers as a light rain fell. "This seems surreal. I'm still pinching myself," said Burton, 46. "This is unbelievable." Burton had been sentenced to 75 years in prison for the 1984 slaying, a crime he said he didn't commit. He was freed Aug. 29 after an eight-year legal effort by the Rev. Jim McCloskey and McCloskey's co-workers at the Princeton-based Centurion Ministries...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).