Missouri Woman Freed After 43 Years in Prison

Sandra Hemme, a 64-year-old woman in Missouri, was released after serving 43 years in prison for a murder conviction that was overturned, making her the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman in the US. Despite efforts by the Missouri attorney general to keep her behind bars, multiple courts agreed on her release based on strong evidence of her innocence. The judge threatened to hold the attorney general's office in contempt if they continued to oppose her release, emphasizing that it shouldn't be so difficult to free an innocent person. Hemme reunited with her family after her release, and legal experts found the ongoing attempts to prolong her incarceration for past assault cases shocking, given the circumstances of her case and the evidence of her innocence.