Larry Youngblood was wrongfully convicted of a child rape in the 1980s. He's seen in this later booking photo.
A story in the Atlantic Monthly explores the case of Larry Youngblood, a man wrongfully convicted in Pima County in 1985 of a brutal child rape.
DNA evidence later proved Youngblood innocent of the crime, for which he spent years behind bars.
Read the Atlantic story here and about the Pima County Attorney's Office new effort to investigate potentially erroneous convictions.
Contact reporter Patrick McNamara at 573-4241 or pmcnamara@tucson.com. On Twitter @pm929.
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