FILE - In this April 19, 2018, file photo, Paul Jenkins, one of two men whose convictions were for a 1994 murder, speaks at a Montana Innocence Project news conference in Missoula, Mont. Jenkins and co-defendant Freddie Joe Lawrence were convicted in the 1994 death of Donna Meagher, whose body was found west of Helena. Recent DNA tests on a rope found at the murder scene matched another man, a convicted killer. Federal lawsuits filed Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, by Jenkins and Lawrence allege investigators acted on a tip from a known liar, coerced a confession, coerced mentally unstable people to corroborate false evidence and failed to follow up on evidence that linked the case to another man whose DNA was eventually found on a rope near the victim's body. (Tom Bauer/The Missoulian via AP, File)
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