Mary Virginia Jones

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In this photo taken on Monday, March 24, 2014 and released by the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, USC Post-Conviction Justice Project attorneys, Heidi Rummel, left, and Laura Donaldson, right, celebrate with Mary Virginia Jones' daughter, Denitra Jones-Goodie, outside Superior court in Los Angeles. Mary Virginia Jones, a 74-year-old California woman, was freed late Monday after serving 32 years of a life sentence for her role in a 1981 killing. Los Angeles County prosecutors conducted a new investigation and agreed to accept a plea of no contest for involuntary manslaughter. Judge William C. Ryan ruled Monday afternoon that Jones had served well over the 11-year maximum sentence for the lesser crime and ordered her freed. (AP Photo/USC Gould School of Law, Jilien Silsby)