article_snippet.sent: Until one week ago, when his murder convictions were wiped clean, and Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of a county jail in Birmingham.
article_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of killing two men -- Birmingham-area fast-food restaurant managers John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason -- but Anthony Ray Hinton always said Anthony Ray Hinton was innocent.
article_snippet.sent: The state decided to dismiss the charges against Anthony Ray Hinton after a new trial was ordered in 2014 when firearms experts testified that the revolver Anthony Ray Hinton was said to have used could not be matched to other evidence in the case.
article_snippet.sent: The victim of a similar crime did identify Anthony Ray Hinton as Anthony Ray Hinton attacker, but that victim and a witness to that incident have since died, Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls said.
article_snippet.sent: When asked if Anthony Ray Hinton's ordeal was an injustice, because the evidence about guns that helped convict Anthony Ray Hinton should have been ruled inconclusive in 1985, Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls said, "It appears it was.
highlights_snippet.sent: Anthony Ray Hinton was freed Apri 3, decades after conviction for two murders .
  