Law Dept. insists Fairbanks Four not ‘exonerated’

The state’s Department of Law maintains the Fairbanks Four were not exonerated in the settlement, or completely cleared of blame.
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John Skidmore is the director of criminal division of the state’s Department of Law.
“The agreement or settlement that the state reached yesterday with the men in the Fairbanks Four case was that they were admitting that they were properly and validly convicted when the convictions were entered back in 1996. And it was only new evidenc