Official exoneration for man freed last year in 1973 rape

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A legal ordeal that has dragged on for close to half a century is finally over for a man wrongfully convicted in a 1971 rape.
The advocacy group Innocence Project New Orleans said Thursday that prosecutors in Baton Rouge officially dismissed charges against Wilbert Jones in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse at Baton Rouge General Hospital.
Jones was released from the state prison at Angola last November after spending nearly 46 years behind bars. A state judge said that