'Golf Digest' helps free an innocent man who spent 27 years in jail on a murder conviction

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• On Wednesday, Valentino Dixon was made a free man after spending 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
• Dixon's innocence was eventually brought about thanks in part to "Golf Digest," which had taken an interest in Dixon's case after seeing his art depicting golf holes.
• The attention brought by the magazine's reporting on Dixon led to new media attention and began a process that ended in his innocence and release.

In 2012, "Golf Digest" published the story of Valentino Dixon, an inmate serving 39 years-to-life in prison on a murder conviction. 

Dixon is an artist and spent much of his time in prison drawing images of golf courses. Though he had never played the sport, Dixon got his start after a warden asked him to draw the 12th hole at Augusta National. Eventually, his work caught the eye of "Golf Digest," and the magazine published a first-person essay written by Dixon.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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