
“After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told to await instructions on when and where to report to prison. But those instructions never came. So Anderson didn’t report. He spent the next 13 years turning his life around — getting married, raising three kids, learning a trade. He made no effort to conceal his identity or whereabouts. In a single day last July, Anderson’s life was turned upside-down. ‘They sent a SWAT team to his house,’ Anderson’s attorney, Patrick Megaro, said Wednesday. ‘He was getting his 3-year-old daughter breakfast, and these men with automatic weapons bang on his door.'”
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