After 44 years in state prison for a murder conviction, Guy Michael Scott is a free man.

And he’s terrified.

Scott, 69, was ordered released by a judge Sept. 16 at the request of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office because of what might have been prosecutorial misconduct at his 1984 trial. Scott has lived behind bars since he was 25 and is accustomed to being told what to do, where to go, what to eat and what to wear.

Now he has so many decisions to make on how to spend the rest of his life. And the world outside Corcoran state prison seems too big for him. He’s got virtually no family, few friends and little money. He’s hoping to find his two adult sons, but he has no idea where to look for them.

“I’m scared,” Scott said in a phone interview from Redding. “I’m institutional

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