An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his. Ricky Dority used his pandemic relief money to hire a private investigator, who worked to free him along with students from Oklahoma City University’s Innocence Project.
Ricky Dority, 65, speaks at the home of his son in Greenwood, Ark.,, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Dority was freed in June with the help of a dogged private investigator he hired with COVID-relief funds and students at Oklahoma City University’s Innocence Project who found inconsistencies in the state’s account of a 1997 cold-case murder.Ricky Dority, 65, poses for a photo outside at the home of his son in Greenwood, Ark.,, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.
Now, the 65-year-old says he’s enjoying the 5-acre property in a quiet neighborhood of well-to-do homes in the rolling, forested hills of the Arkansas River Valley outside of Fort Smith. “If you’re gone for a lot of years, you don’t take it for granted anymore.
“I thought I was clear because I knew I didn’t have anything do with that murder,” Dority said. “But they tried me for it and found me guilty of it.” He eventually turned to the university’s Oklahoma Innocence Project, which assigned a law student, Abby Brawner, to help investigate. Brawner and Staton also learned the informant didn’t live at the home where he told investigators Staton showed up in bloody clothes. When the actual homeowner testified at a hearing this summer, the judge dismissed the case.
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