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A |     GREENWOOD, Ark. -- Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son's family.It's a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence at Oklahoma's Joseph Harp Correctional Center in a killing he said he didn't commit. After more than two decades behind bars, Dority had no chance at being released — until he used his pandemic relief funds to hire a dogged private investigator. The investigator and students at the Oklahoma Innocence Project at Oklahoma City University, which is dedicated to exonerating wrongful convictions in the state, found inconsistencies in the state's account of a 1997 cold-case killing, and Dority's conviction was vacated in June by a Sequoyah County judge.Now, the 65-year-old says he’s enjoying the 5-acre property in a quiet neighborhood of well-to-do homes in the rolling, forested hills of the Arkansas River Valley outside of Fort Smith. “If you’re gone for a lot of years, you don’t take it for granted anymore.”Dority is one of nearly 3,400 people who have been exonerated across the country since 1989, mostly over murder convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. In Oklahoma, there have been more than 43 exonerations in that time, not including three new exonerations this year. The cases underscore a serious problem facing a judicial system in which many old convictions resulted from overworked defense attorneys, shoddy forensic work, overzealous prosecutors and outdated investigative techniques.The problem is particularly acute given Oklahoma's history of sending people to death row, where 11 inmates have been exonerated since 1981. The issue has pushed a Republican-led legislative panel to consider whether a death penalty moratorium should be imposed.In Oklahoma County, Glynn Ray Simmons was freed after spending nearly 50 years in prison, including time on death row, in a 1974 killing after a judge determined prosecutors failed to turn over evidence in the case, including a police report that showed an eyewitness might have identified other suspects.And just this week, Perry Lott, who served more than 30 years in prison, had his rape and burglary conviction vacated in Pontotoc County after new DNA testing excluded him as the perpetrator. Pontotoc County, in particular, has come under intense scrutiny for a series of wrongful convictions in the 1980s that have been the subject of numerous books, including John Grisham’s “The Innocent Man,” which he produced into a six-part documentary on Netflix. The most common causes of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentification, misapplication of forensic science, false confessions, coerced pleas and official misconduct, generally by police or prosecutors, according to the Innocence Project, a national organization based in New York.In Dority's case, he said he was railroaded by an overzealous sheriff and a state prosecutor eager to solve the killing of 28-year-old Mitchell Nixon, who was found beaten to death in 1997.Investigators who reopened the case in 2014 coerced a confession from another man, Rex Robbins, according to Andrea Miller, the legal director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project. Robbins, who would plead guilty to manslaughter in Nixon's killing, implicated Dority, who at the time was in a federal prison on a firearms conviction. Dority said he knew he didn't have anything to do with the crime and found paperwork that proved he had been arrested on the day of the killing.“I thought I was clear because I knew I didn’t have anything do with that murder,” Dority said. “But they tried me for it and found me guilty of it.”Jurors heard about Robbins' confession and testimony from a police informant who said Dority had changed bloody clothes at his house the night of the killing. They convicted him of first-degree murder and recommended a sentence of life without parole.After years in prison, while most inmates spent their federal COVID-19 relief check in the commissary, Dority used his to hire a private investigator, he said. Bobby Staton had mostly investigated insurance fraud, but he took on the case and realized quickly that it was riddled with holes, Staton said. He eventually turned to the university's Oklahoma Innocence Project, which assigned a law student, Abby Brawner, to help investigate.Their investigation turned when Staton and Brawner visited Robbins in the maximum-security Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, and he recanted his statement implicating Dority. “It was pretty intimidating,” Brawner said. “Especially when you're going in to meet someone who doesn't know you're coming and doesn't want to talk to you.”Brawner and Staton also learned the informant didn't live at the home where he told investigators Staton showed up in bloody clothes. When the actual homeowner testified at a hearing this summer, the judge dismissed the case.Dority's original attorneys were ineffective for not discovering the informant didn't live at the home, the judge said, giving prosecutors 90 days to decide whether they will retry him. That three months has been extended, and prosecutors have said they intend to ask the judge for more time for DNA testing. Dority, confident in his innocence, said he's not concerned about additional forensic testing.Sequoyah County District Attorney Jack Thorp and former Sheriff Ron Lockhart did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press. But Assistant District Attorney James Dunn, who is overseeing the case and was not in the office when it was originally prosecuted, said he agreed with the judge's dismissal after hearing the homeowner's testimony and learning a witness “was not credible.” “The last thing I want to see is an innocent person in prison for a crime they didn't commit," Dunn said. "Because that means the person who actually did commit the crime, or those persons, are still out there.” Meanwhile, Dority is learning to use a smartphone and the television remote control, he said. He's thankful to Staton and the Innocence Project and says his case proves others are wrongfully imprisoned in Oklahoma.“After they’ve done what they’ve done to me, I know there are people in that prison who are innocent that need to be out and need help getting out,” he said. “If they hadn’t gotten me out, I’d have been in there for the rest of my life.”。     7月22日上午，“福来浙里更出彩”活动首站在衢州举行，拉开了2026年度浙江福彩“走进福彩公益金资助项目”系列主题活动序幕。60余名热心公益的社会公众代表和省、市媒体记者代表、福彩一线销售员代表等来到衢江区杜泽镇敬老院，实地参观这一受福彩公益金资助的项目，切身感受福彩“扶老、助残、救孤、济困”的公益力量。衢州市民政局及省市福彩中心有关人员共同参与了此次活动。

B | 实地参观，看见福彩公益金使用成果   活动开始前，在院方负责人带领下，参与活动的代表们走进敬老院住宿楼、食堂、卫生室、老年活动室，实地感受老人们的生活状况，也看到了对老年人晚年生活的保障措施。据介绍，杜泽镇敬老院属于公办福利机构，福彩公益金支持了院内部分基础设施建设以及相关照护服务，该院供养了包括杜泽镇在内周边11个乡镇的特困老人，目前居住在院内的老人超过四分之三都是特困老人，为社会承担起了养老兜底工作，切实筑牢基层养老保障底线。趣味互动，看见幸福晚年      本次活动为院内老人带来了一场丰富多彩的文艺表演，越剧《梁山伯与祝英台》选段、歌曲《潇洒走一回》等经典文艺节目轮番上演，收获老人们阵阵掌声。通过有奖知识问答环节，同步科普福彩公益常识与反诈知识，帮助老人们守好自己的钱袋子。     活动现场，浙江福彩还专门为老人们搭建了互动体验区，“移动门诊”义诊台前，医生们为老人提供“一对一”健康咨询服务；福运游戏区，老人们三三两两结伴一起玩着游戏；手工创作区，非遗志愿者指导老人们制作“福”字拓印团扇……杜奶奶手里拿着自己刚DIY好的团扇，左看看右看看，脸上挂着满意的笑容。丰富多彩的活动让老人们都很开心，张爷爷说：“难得今天这么热闹，真的很开心，节目很好看，游戏也很好玩，我还赢了好几个奖品。”    根据老人们日常需求，浙江福彩向院内老人捐赠了轮椅、锻炼器材等共计价值5万元的慰问物资。   “走进福彩公益金资助项目”系列主题活动是浙江福彩为更好地履行福利彩票社会责任、践行为民爱民使命及公益慈善初心的宣传举措，旨在进一步促进福利彩票安全健康发展，建设好、宣传好福彩公益品牌，让社会大众详细了解福彩和福彩公益金用途，并能够亲眼看见其使用成果。     该系列活动自2023年启动以来，今年已是第四年举办。三年来，活动深入敬老院、儿童福利院等社会福利机构，累计慰问帮扶老人、困境儿童、残障群众数千人次。让媒体记者代表、投注站销售员代表、购彩者代表、志愿者代表、热心公益事业的社会公众代表等走进这些机构，对福彩公益金的使用情况有了更加真实、全面的了解。2026年活动计划覆盖全省各地市（含义乌），面向全社会开放参与渠道，邀请市民共同见证、感受公益福彩的温度。　　浙江福彩自上市以来至2026年6月底，已累计销售各类福利彩票2470.63亿元，为国家筹集公益金729.89亿元(含弃奖)，一张张小小的彩票所筹集的公益金先后资助了全省老年人、儿童、残疾人福利类项目超过20万个，为全省民生保障事业贡献着福彩力量。