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by Liliana Segura:<\/p>\n

On a snowy evening in late March, just over a year after walking out of prison, where he had spent 23 years for a crime he didn\u2019t commit, William Lopez entered a CVS in the Bronx and did something inexplicable. After paying for a prescription at the pharmacy counter, he paused to grab some other things\u2014two sticks of Old Spice deodorant and some allergy medicine. Then, without paying, and in full view of a security guard, he walked out. Police were called and Lopez was arrested.<\/p>\n

Lopez told his lawyer he had been preoccupied and took the items by accident. This actually made sense; navigating his new-found freedom posed a daily challenge for the 55-year-old Lopez, and he was often distracted. \u201cHis mind was not all there,\u201d his lawyer recalls. \u201cHe was anxious about a lot of things.\u201d But Jeff Deskovic, Lopez\u2019s closest friend, heard a different explanation, one that disturbed him. To him, Lopez confessed, \u201che committed a petty theft to get reincarcerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deskovic was stunned. Just a few weeks earlier, The<\/em> New York Times<\/i> had published a long profile<\/a> featuring both of them, showing Lopez moving on with his life\u2014singing karaoke and bonding with other former New York inmates who had been released after wrongful convictions. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like we get together for treatment or something,\u201d he told the Times<\/i>, \u201clike we have the same disease.\u201d If casting himself as sick might have been a signal that Lopez was struggling more, not less, as time passed, no one read it that way. No one could have guessed he would sabotage his freedom by shoplifting thirty dollars\u2019 worth of stuff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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