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Killing of Leonard Cure

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On October 16, 2023, Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old man, was fatally shot after he assaulted Sheriff's Deputy Buck Aldridge in Camden County, Georgia during a traffic stop for speeding. Cure had been exonerated in 2020 after being wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in Florida in 2003. On February 25, 2025, the district attorney announced that Aldridge would not face criminal charges in Cure's death.

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