Darryl Hunt, an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was wrongfully convicted in 1984 for the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes, a 25-year-old white newspaper copy editor. Despite maintaining his innocence, Hunt was sentenced to life imprisonment. His case became a focal point of racial tension and injustice in Winston-Salem, as he spent 19 1/2 years in prison before being exonerated in 2004. The exoneration came after DNA evidence proved that Hunt could not have committed the
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