一 | GREENWOOD, Ark. -- Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son's family.It's a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence at Oklahoma's Joseph Harp Correctional Center in a killing he said he didn't commit. After more than two decades behind bars, Dority had no chance at being released — until he used his pandemic relief funds to hire a dogged private investigator. The investigator and students at the Oklahoma Innocence Project at Oklahoma City University, which is dedicated to exonerating wrongful convictions in the state, found inconsistencies in the state's account of a 1997 cold-case killing, and Dority's conviction was vacated in June by a Sequoyah County judge.Now, the 65-year-old says he’s enjoying the 5-acre property in a quiet neighborhood of well-to-do homes in the rolling, forested hills of the Arkansas River Valley outside of Fort Smith. “If you’re gone for a lot of years, you don’t take it for granted anymore.”Dority is one of nearly 3,400 people who have been exonerated across the country since 1989, mostly over murder convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. In Oklahoma, there have been more than 43 exonerations in that time, not including three new exonerations this year. The cases underscore a serious problem facing a judicial system in which many old convictions resulted from overworked defense attorneys, shoddy forensic work, overzealous prosecutors and outdated investigative techniques.The problem is particularly acute given Oklahoma's history of sending people to death row, where 11 inmates have been exonerated since 1981. The issue has pushed a Republican-led legislative panel to consider whether a death penalty moratorium should be imposed.In Oklahoma County, Glynn Ray Simmons was freed after spending nearly 50 years in prison, including time on death row, in a 1974 killing after a judge determined prosecutors failed to turn over evidence in the case, including a police report that showed an eyewitness might have identified other suspects.And just this week, Perry Lott, who served more than 30 years in prison, had his rape and burglary conviction vacated in Pontotoc County after new DNA testing excluded him as the perpetrator. Pontotoc County, in particular, has come under intense scrutiny for a series of wrongful convictions in the 1980s that have been the subject of numerous books, including John Grisham’s “The Innocent Man,” which he produced into a six-part documentary on Netflix. The most common causes of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentification, misapplication of forensic science, false confessions, coerced pleas and official misconduct, generally by police or prosecutors, according to the Innocence Project, a national organization based in New York.In Dority's case, he said he was railroaded by an overzealous sheriff and a state prosecutor eager to solve the killing of 28-year-old Mitchell Nixon, who was found beaten to death in 1997.Investigators who reopened the case in 2014 coerced a confession from another man, Rex Robbins, according to Andrea Miller, the legal director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project. Robbins, who would plead guilty to manslaughter in Nixon's killing, implicated Dority, who at the time was in a federal prison on a firearms conviction. Dority said he knew he didn't have anything to do with the crime and found paperwork that proved he had been arrested on the day of the killing.“I thought I was clear because I knew I didn’t have anything do with that murder,” Dority said. “But they tried me for it and found me guilty of it.”Jurors heard about Robbins' confession and testimony from a police informant who said Dority had changed bloody clothes at his house the night of the killing. They convicted him of first-degree murder and recommended a sentence of life without parole.After years in prison, while most inmates spent their federal COVID-19 relief check in the commissary, Dority used his to hire a private investigator, he said. Bobby Staton had mostly investigated insurance fraud, but he took on the case and realized quickly that it was riddled with holes, Staton said. He eventually turned to the university's Oklahoma Innocence Project, which assigned a law student, Abby Brawner, to help investigate.Their investigation turned when Staton and Brawner visited Robbins in the maximum-security Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, and he recanted his statement implicating Dority. “It was pretty intimidating,” Brawner said. “Especially when you're going in to meet someone who doesn't know you're coming and doesn't want to talk to you.”Brawner and Staton also learned the informant didn't live at the home where he told investigators Staton showed up in bloody clothes. When the actual homeowner testified at a hearing this summer, the judge dismissed the case.Dority's original attorneys were ineffective for not discovering the informant didn't live at the home, the judge said, giving prosecutors 90 days to decide whether they will retry him. That three months has been extended, and prosecutors have said they intend to ask the judge for more time for DNA testing. Dority, confident in his innocence, said he's not concerned about additional forensic testing.Sequoyah County District Attorney Jack Thorp and former Sheriff Ron Lockhart did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press. But Assistant District Attorney James Dunn, who is overseeing the case and was not in the office when it was originally prosecuted, said he agreed with the judge's dismissal after hearing the homeowner's testimony and learning a witness “was not credible.” “The last thing I want to see is an innocent person in prison for a crime they didn't commit," Dunn said. "Because that means the person who actually did commit the crime, or those persons, are still out there.” Meanwhile, Dority is learning to use a smartphone and the television remote control, he said. He's thankful to Staton and the Innocence Project and says his case proves others are wrongfully imprisoned in Oklahoma.“After they’ve done what they’ve done to me, I know there are people in that prison who are innocent that need to be out and need help getting out,” he said. “If they hadn’t gotten me out, I’d have been in there for the rest of my life.”。 – 常见传染病 – 预防知识 玉立芳华幼儿园 知岁一寒，又是一冬。冬季是各种传染病的高发季节。
二 | 幼儿年龄小，抵抗力弱，极易受到季节性传染病的侵袭，要增强传染病的防控意识，预防传染病的发生。以下是近期常见传染病预防保健知识，让我们一起来了解吧！ 流行性感冒 流行性感冒是由流感病毒引起的一种急性呼吸道传染病。分为甲、乙、丙三型，近期甲型流感较为常见，患者和病毒携带者是主要的传染源。该病起病急、传播快、易引起暴发性流行。每年10月至次年3月是流感高发时期。主要有畏寒高热、全身酸痛、头痛咽痛等症状。 01 主要症状 发热：体温可达39-40℃，常伴畏寒、寒战； 全身症状：头痛、肌肉和关节酸痛、极度乏力、食欲减退； 呼吸道症状：咽痛、咳嗽，可能有鼻塞、流涕、胸骨后不适； 其他症状：颜面潮红，结膜轻度充血，有些患者可能出现呕吐或腹泻等胃肠道症状。
三 | 02 传播途径 主要通过空气飞沫传播，也可经口腔、鼻腔黏膜等直接或间接接触传播。 03 预防措施 1.接种流感疫苗是预防流感最有效的手段。
四 | 2.早晚气温较低，接送幼儿时可适当增添衣物，避免受凉。
五 | 3.勤洗手，常通风，减少聚集活动。保持健康生活习惯，规律作息，合理饮食，加强锻炼，增强体质。 4.出现流感样症状时，应居家休息，避免接触人群；与家人接触时戴口罩，减少传播风险；病情加重应及时就医，就诊时患者及陪护人员需佩戴口罩，避免交叉感染。 支原体肺炎 支原体肺炎是由肺炎支原体引起的急性肺部炎症，可累及支气管、细支气管、肺泡和肺间质。 01 主要症状 典型症状：疲乏、肌痛，中等度发热、持续2~3周，剧烈干咳、可有浓痰，头痛、咽痛、胸部疼痛等，通常在感染后1~3周开始出现症状并在2~4天内缓慢恶化。 伴随症状：部分患者伴有鼻咽部及耳部疼痛，气促和呼吸困难，咽部及鼓膜充血，颈部淋巴结肿大。10%~20%患者会出现斑丘疹或多形红斑。部分儿童会伴有皮疹、血管栓塞、溶血性贫血、脑膜炎、心肌炎等。 02 传播途径 主要通过呼吸道飞沫传播，其潜伏期较长，可达2-3周。 03 预防措施 1.经常开窗通风，保持室内空气新鲜、流通。 2.勤洗手，避免与急性期患者接触。 3.多进行户外活动，呼吸新鲜空气，注意保暖避免受凉。疾病流行期间不去人员密集和环境密闭的地方。 支气管肺炎 支气管肺炎是累及支气管壁和肺泡的炎症，多由细菌、病毒、支原体等病原体引起。是小儿时期最常见的肺炎类型，也可见于成人。 01 主要症状 发热：体温可高可低，不规则热较为常见。 咳嗽：初期为干咳，之后有痰。
六 | 气促：呼吸频率加快，出现鼻翼扇动、三凹征等。 呼吸困难：呼吸费力、喘息。 02 传播途径 主要通过呼吸道飞沫传播，也可经直接接触或间接接触传播。 03 预防措施 1.经常开窗通风，保持室内空气新鲜、流通。
七 | 2.勤洗手，避免与急性期患者接触。 3.多进行户外活动，呼吸新鲜空气，注意保暖避免受凉。疾病流行期间不去人员密集和环境密闭的地方。 预防先行·健康成长 亲爱的家长朋友们，冬季虽寒，关怀却暖。愿我们分享的幼儿冬季保健知识，能成为您和宝贝温暖冬日的贴心指南，让我们家园携手，为幼儿的健康成长筑起一道坚固的屏障！ 编辑：王 乐 校对：马 珊 审核：李若萍。
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