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Md. public works board awards $2 million to wrongfully convicted manBALTIMORE — The Maryland Board of Public Works awarded over $2 million Wednesday to Anthony Hall, a Baltimore man who served 25 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder. “Because of this gross miscarriage of justice, Mr. Hall spent 9,072 days behind bars for a crime he did not commit,” Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, said at a meeting of the Board of Public Works on Wednesday morning in Annapolis. “It took the state more than three decades to acknowledge Mr. Hall’s innocence.” Hall, who is now 61, was not present…