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1. An Oakland man who spent nearly seven years in state prison for a crime he didn’t commit was released from custody on Friday, the Trib and Chron report. Ronald Ross had been locked up as a result of shoddy investigative work by the Oakland Police Department. Ross was freed with the help of the Innocence Project at Santa Clara University and the law firm of Keker & Van Nest, which showed that OPD had arrested the wrong man.