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“There is a reasonable probability that you can be released without detriment to the community or yourself,” Helen Miller, the board’s chair, wrote in the release order. The board’s order also took stock of Dinkins prior criminal record. A product of the criminal justice system, Dinkins has been in and out of incarceration since 1990 when he was convicted of sexual abuse of a child in the third degree. He was 17 at the time. That original conviction led to an adult whose life was pockmarked by over a dozen criminal charges; some serious, some minor. In 2009, Dinkins was also charged with murder–though police eventually dropped those charges after determining that he was actually a witness, according to the Cedar Rapids ....