article_snippet.sent: Michael Hanline, 69, pictured with wife Sandy, has been released from jail after spending 36 years behind bars for a murder Michael Hanline did not commit .
article_snippet.sent: The new evidence proved that Michael Hanline was innocent and the longest-serving wrongfully imprisoned inmate in Californian history was finally released last November.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Hanline said Michael Hanline kept waiting for justice to prevail but had no idea that Michael Hanline would spent the next 36 years in prison. '
article_snippet.sent: When I first got arrested, I figured it might take a year or two to get this all straightened around but not 36,' Michael Hanline said, including two years Michael Hanline spent in jail after Michael Hanline arrest but before Michael Hanline conviction.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Hanline added: 'I never believed I'd spend the rest of my life in prison, but man, 36 years is a long, long time.'
article_snippet.sent: The evidence proved that Hanline was innocent and the longest-serving wrongfully imprisoned inmate in Californian history was finally released last November with charges only officially dropped yesterday .
article_snippet.sent: Hanline's conviction was overturned and Hanline was freed from prison on November 24 after prosecutors told a judge doubts had been raised about the case.
article_snippet.sent: Hanline is at least the third person in recent years to be freed from a California prison after serving long sentences for murder.
article_snippet.sent: Last fall Susan Mellen, a 59-year-old mother of three, was freed after spending 17 years in prison for the death of a homeless man in Lawndale.
article_snippet.sent: In 2013, Kash Register was freed after spending 34 years in prison.
article_snippet.sent: In 2007, Timothy Atkins was freed after spending 20 years in prison for a 1987 robbery and murder in Los Angeles.
highlights_snippet.sent: After 36 years wrongfully imprisoned the 69-year-old has finally been freed .
  