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Q: While putting together our original story, the fact that the crime happened so long ago presented certain reporting challenges. Although the St. Charles Police Department records and investigative notes about the robbery in 1999 are public, none of the contact information for anyone interviewed was current. It was important to us to try to contact the victim of the robbery, but we were unsuccessful. 
  
 Instead, the victim found us. 
  
 Two days after the story published, we received an e-mail with the subject line, "man that robbed the burger king man." "Just to let you know that I was that victim. Why don't you talk to me and I will tell you how bad it screwed up my life," it read. 
  
 His name is Dennis -- we've agreed to use only his first name. 
  
 "I got cigarettes and picked up the Riverfront Times...and I was sitting there back at work eating my lunch and reading this magazine," he says. "About halfway through I realized they were talking about me. The guy was a Burger King manager on a night shift, and he got robbed in St. Charles, and that's when I was like, 'Damn, that's the same thing that happened to me.'" 
  
 After the robbery in 1999, Dennis quit his job at Burger King and became increasingly paranoid that the men who'd held him up would find him and try to prevent him from testifying. He had a wife and small children, and he says he made them move more than once. But that didn't seem to calm his nerves. 
  
 "Once this happened, I shut everything out around me. Didn't care," he says. "I didn't want to be involved in anything. Stayed away from home, stayed away from the kids or the old lady. Would not even come home. Go get shitfaced, pretty much." 
  
 Eventually, after his marriage broke up, Dennis moved to Florida to be near his brother. About six years ago, he decided to come back so his now-teenage daughter could be closer to his ex. He says he mostly forgot about the robbery -- until he read about it in the RFT. Naturally, he'd just assumed that after the trial, Anderson went to prison. 
  
 "There are so many cracks he fell through -- how could that be possible?" Dennis asks. 
  
 In our first conversation with Dennis, he seemed angry at Anderson. But by the time we met him in person, he had a new, more surprising reaction. 
  
 "I think what really pissed me off is how our government dropped the ball. They didn't do what they were supposed to do. They were supposed to make sure he went to jail," he says. "[Mike] screwed up and he was supposed to pay for it. Our government screwed up. Who's paying for that? Does he have to pay for that again? Doesn't seem right." 
  
 Dennis shared another surprising anecdote -- his daughter read the story in a high school class, not knowing that her dad was the victim of the robbery. When she came home and started talking about it, Dennis let her tell him her conclusion -- that Anderson should get to go home -- before he revealed he was the Burger King manager. 
  
 "She sat down at her bed and was like, 'No way.' And I said, 'Read it,'" says Dennis. "Then she asked me my opinion and I told her pretty much.... 'They should let him go.'" 
  
 Dennis told Riverfront Times that although he has no interest in meeting Anderson or corresponding with him, he would be open to filing a letter with the courts stating that he believes Anderson should go home. 
  
 Tune in this weekend to 90.7 St. Louis Public Radio to hear Anderson and Dennis tell the story themselves. This American Life airs locally at 1 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. on Sunday. 
  
 After the jump, read Anderson's petition for release. 
  
  
  
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 On behalf of myself and the Anderson family, I thank you for your support. Watch us live on the Today Show on NBC tomorrow morning. My client and his wife will be interviewed. 
  
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 Cornealious "Mike" Anderson is 36 years old, a married father of four, youth football coach, volunteer, homeowner and small business owner in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1999, he was arrested and later convicted of participating in a robbery of a Burger King manager. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was released on bail while his appeals were pending, and after he lost his appeals, the State of Missouri simply forgot about him. They never told him to report to prison to serve his sentence. 
  
 When he was arrested, he was 22 years old, had no children, was not married, and did not own a home or a business. 
  
 From 1999 to 2013, he lived a law-abiding life, paid taxes, and worked to build a career as a carpenter. He never became a fugitive, tried to change his identity, or flee from justice. He had no further trouble with the law. He stayed right in St. Louis. He got married, had 4 children, built his own home in Missouri, and started several successful small businesses, including a contracting business. He volunteered at his church and coached his son's youth football team. 
  
 In July, 2013, the State of Missouri suddenly realized, 13 years later, that Mike Anderson had never served the sentence, and that he was out on bail this entire time. They raided his house with a SWAT team, and ripped him from his home without warning, hauled him off to prison, and told him he now had to serve 13 years in prison. 
  
 If he is required to serve the sentence, he will be 50 years old when he is released. His kids will have grown up without a father, his wife will have had to raise 4 children alone, and they will lose their home and business - everything he had worked so hard to attain in the last 13 years of leading a normal life. 
  
 The victim of the robbery believes that Mike Anderson should not be forced to now serve a 13- year sentence, and believes the State of Missouri dropped the ball. He has said that he believes it would serve no purpose in now incarcerating this man. 
  
 I am representing Mike Anderson in his petition for release from prison. Join us in petitioning the Attorney General of the State of Missouri and Mississippi County Judge T. Lynn Brown to release this man from this unjustice. 
  
 Read his story here: Riverview Times Article 2-14-2014 
  
 Listen to his story here: This American Life 
  
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A: 
Cornealious "Mike" Anderson was supposed to go to prison in 2002—but due to, he says, a "clerical error," the Missouri man just started serving his 13-year prison sentence nine months ago. Anderson was convicted in a 1999 armed robbery, and was supposed to go to prison after he exhausted all his appeals. But the state never ordered Anderson to prison, because it somehow mistakenly believed he was already there, CBS News reports. Then, when the time came for what should have been Anderson's discharge date last summer, the state realized it couldn't discharge him ... because he had never been in prison. Anderson had made no attempt to hide over the ensuing years—he got married and is a father of four, started a contracting business, and built a house—where he was re-arrested in July. Anderson's attorneys have filed a motion arguing that after so long, jailing Anderson amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, and thus he should be released. Even Anderson's victim agrees, as do the more than 11,000 supporters who've signed an online petition calling for Anderson's release. The state attorney general is expected to respond Tuesday. Anderson, now 37, was 22 when he and a friend robbed a St. Louis Burger King night manager at gunpoint, the New York Post reports. No one was hurt, but the victim talked to the Riverfront Times after Anderson went to prison last year and said that he was emotionally "screwed up" by the crime. Even so, he says it "doesn't seem right" that Anderson should have to go through this ordeal because of a government error. (Anderson may not have fled the law, but this female fugitive—who was caught last month on a Florida houseboat 18 years after her conviction—most definitely did.)