A Free Man after Nearly a Decade Behind Bars

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This week, a Missouri man was able to walk free for the first time in a decade after an appeals court overturned his conviction. Ryan Ferguson had insisted from the start that he was not guilty of murdering Columbia Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt on Halloween night in 2001. Reading about the circumstances that placed him in jail in the first place is disturbing and reinforces the need for those in our judicial system to be held to the highest level o...