TIL that due to a clerical error, the state of Missouri assumed that a man named Mike Anderson was in prison, serving his 13-year sentence for armed robbery. It's only when they began preparing for his release did they realise that law-enforcement had forgotten to take him to jail.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2014/05/update-mike-anderson-released



Submitted April 06, 2015 at 06:52PM by sludj5 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31miev/til_that_due_to_a_clerical_error_the_state_of/