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Truck driver exonerated 14 years after Utah child sodomy conviction

Attorneys with the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center worked for years to prove Michael W. Thompson’s innocence.

(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) The Matheson Courthouse in 2016. Michael W. Thompson will receive $300,000, as required by Utah law, to account for the seven years he spent incarcerated after being wrongfully convicted. A judge found Thompson factually innocent on Aug. 30, 2022.

(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) The Matheson Courthouse in 2016. Michael W. Thompson will receive $300,000, as required by Utah law, to account for the seven years he spent incarcerated after being wrongfully convicted. A judge found Thompson factually innocent on Aug. 30, 2022.

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