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15 September 2007 Daily Press / AP reported “After 7 years behind bars, wrongly convicted man enjoys freedom”.

Hampton, Va. - Teddy Thompson considers working as a construction worker or maybe a plumber or an electrician. The 24-year-old Hampton man was released from prison on September 10th after serving more than six years for a robbery he didn't commit. He says he doesn't hold a grudge against the man who once said Thompson robbed him.

But Thompson says he no longer trusts the criminal justice system, and his lawyer says the family still hasn't yet decided whether to sue the state for time lost in prison. For now, Thompson plans to take about a month off and begin to get to know his two 7-year-old daughters. Thompson was freed two months after Antonio Mitchell recanted and told law enforcement officials he'd identified the wrong person who robbed him at gunpoint.

Thompson said he harbors no bitterness toward Mitchell, but says Hampton police and the jury ignored evidence that he was at a Virginia Beach recording studio at the time of the robbery. He says he's not going back to prison.

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