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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A man who spent more than two decades in jail, mostly on death row, was freed Friday after a state judge dismissed a murder charge against him, saying a fired Oklahoma City police chemist had tainted the evidence in the case.
The twice convicted Curtis Edward McCarty, 42, was released shortly after noon from the Oklahoma County Jail, where he had been awaiting a third trial in the 1982 slaying of a city police officer's daughter.
Attorneys escorted him to a waiting gray minivan through a crowd of reporters who asked him if he thought he would ever be freed.
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