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Obie Anthony, right, is surrounded by family and his legal team after being awarded more than $8 million for a wrongful conviction.

Obie Anthony, right, is surrounded by family and his legal team after being awarded more than $8 million for a wrongful conviction.

  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office is creating a unit dedicated to reviewing the integrity of past convictions.

Wrongful convictions

Obie Anthony takes a pool shot in a makeshift game room inside his garage.

  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Wrongful convictions

Obie Anthony, once wrongly convicted of murder and jailed nearly 17 years, tears up as he talks about leaving his past life behind while building a new life with his wife.

  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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Kash Delano Register outside a restaurant in Los Angeles after being released from jail.

  (Christina House / For the Times)

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Kash Delano Register dines at a restaurant in Los angeles after being released from jail.

  (Christina House / For the Times)

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Susan Mellen hugs her brother, Michael, outside the Torrance courthouse after she was released from prison for being wrongly convicted of murder 17 years ago.

  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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Susan Mellen celebrates with her attorney, Deirdre O’Connor, left, and David Mellen after a judge determined she was factually innocent of a 1998 murder.

  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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David McCallum, center, hugs his mother, Ernestine McCallum, as he talks to the media after his exoneration in New York.

  (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)

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David McCallum, center, is embraced by his immediate family after his exoneration in New York.

  (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)

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