Charles O Rear/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) A Philadelphia man who was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the 1994 arson murder of a woman is now exonerated 30 years later, the District Attorney s Office announced.On Wednesday, Daniel Gwynn, 54, was exonerated and released from state prison in Pennsylvania after the DA s office said they found flaws in the 1994 first-degree murder investigation."The exoneration of Daniel Gwynn today frees a man who is likely innocent," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a press release. "Sadly, it also exemplifies an era of inexact and, at times corrupt, policing and prosecution that has broken trust with our communities to this day."On November 20, 1994, an unhoused woman named Marsha Smith was killed after a fire broke out in a vacant building on the 4500 block of Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia, according to the press release.The DA s office said Smith, Gwynn and three other individuals wer
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