Lionel Ernest Tholmer's nearly four-decade incarceration rests on a conviction where evidence, subsequently conceded by prosecutors and increasingly documented, did not implicate him. With the recent appointment of Melinda Aiello as Yolo County District Attorney, the decision regarding a review of the case now resides with her administration.
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