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Her opponent, Franky Carrillo, is a criminal justice reform advocate who was exonerated on a wrongful murder conviction.

She’s since been exonerated in the court of public opinion, but Stewart hasn’t forgiven the men who used her conviction to further their political careers, including James Comey.

Although Trump’s pardon exonerated the couple from criminal offenses, Hunter still had to pay a $12,000 fine to the Federal Election Commission.

And he invoked Trump’s statements about the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino men who were wrongly convicted of assaulting a jogger in 1989 and exonerated years later.

Public figures such as the Exonerated Five have to clear the high hurdle of proving the defendant acted knowing the defamatory statement was false, or with “conscious disregard” as to whether the statement is true or false.