After serving 16 years behind bars, a Minnesota man was released from prison after a judge vacated his murder conviction for a crime prosecutors say he didn’t commit.

A prosecutor says a Minnesota man has een released from prison after serving 16 years for a murder he did not commit.

Minnesotan Edgar Barrientos-Quintana has been exonerated due to a "weak" investigation filled with misleading evidence.

MINNEAPOLIS —   After more than a decade behind bars, Edgar Barrientos-Quintana is a free man. He had been serving a life sentence for a murder the county's top prosecutor now says he didn't commit."You know it's going to happen.

After 15 years behind bars, Edgar Barrientos Quintana is a free man. Since 2009, he'd been serving a life sentence for murder. Now, the county's top prosecutor says he didn't do it. WCCO shares what the state found while reviewing the case and why the detective,

Edgar Barrientos-Quintana was found guilty in 2009 but earlier this year, the attorney general's conviction review unit found convincing evidence of his innocence.