NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday granted clemency for the first time since taking office to 17 people, among them a man who was freed in 2019 after spending 12 years in prison for a killing he has long argued he didn't commit.
Mindy Dodd, a Smyrna resident who was convicted of murder in 2001, has been granted an immediate parole hearing and sentence commutation by Gov. Bill Lee.
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