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Aaron Patterson, a former Death Row inmate who became a symbol of a badly broken criminal justice system, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for trading in guns and drugs. Patterson, 43, spent 17 years in prison — 13 on Death Row — proclaiming his innocence and claiming he was framed by homicide detectives. In January 2003, then-Gov. George Ryan pardoned him, saying there was no credible evidence against him.
