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Commentary: Phillip Jackson Day

Commentator Heather Lende talks about an Alaska man who was recently cleared of a crime for which he served four years in prison in the 1970s. Phillip Jackson, a Native American, was convicted of arson 30 years ago. He was too drunk to remember whether he had set fire to a school in Haines, Alaska. Recently, another man confessed.

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