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Back in , Marvin Haynes and I were just four years apart. I was a reporting intern at the Star Tribune then, while he was on trial for a murder he did not commit. For nearly 20 years, Haynes waded through life in a prison cell before his wrongful conviction was overturned last year.

“The justice system failed me,” he said in May when he was a panelist at a Mary Ann Key Book Club event. “And I kind of felt voiceless.”

That’s a trauma that cannot be undone.

I support Haynes and his pursuit of what he’s due. But, respectfully, I disagree with the $2 million sum in his request.

Because he deserves so much more.

The state must grant Haynes the compensation he’s owed. His claim is indisputable. But if that happens, no state official should ever call it reparations. Because the damage done when a year-old Haynes was falsely accused, arrested and imprisoned for the murder of year-old Randy Sherer at a Minneapolis flower shop in can’t be reversed. And money will never erase the blood on

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All seven graduated from college, five with advanced degrees.

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In fall 2002, Medcalf, juggling a part-time job as a lunchroom supervisor at a Mankato middle school, completed his first journalism assignment: a cross-country.

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Myron Medcalf is a graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Melvin/Barbara's child.

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Graduate of University of Delaware.