Thirty years after Cornelius Dupree Jr. was jailed on rape and robbery charges, he is expected to finally have his name cleared after DNA tests proved he could not have committed the crime, according to the Innocence Project. If a Dallas County judge agrees with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins who said the DNA
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New York (CNN) — A man who spent nearly 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit was awarded $18.5 million by a federal jury. Alan Newton, 49, was cleared by DNA evidence and released in 2006 from prison, where he was serving time for the rape and assault of a woman
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HOUSTON – Imprisoned for 27 years for a rape he didn’t commit, Michael Anthony Green walked out of jail a free man on Friday and in the process was able to leave behind some of the anger that had fueled his survival behind bars. Accompanied by his attorney, Green walked out of the Harris County
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After more than three decades in prison, a Florida man was set free Thursday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974. “I’m not angry,” James Bain, 54, told reporters after a brief hearing in Bartow, Florida. Bain was 19 when he was convicted on charges of
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A man who has spent 28 years in prison for the rape and murder of a Georgetown law student might walk out of prison on Tuesday after DNA evidence implicated another man. Donald Gates was convicted of the savage 1981 attack on 21-year-old Catherine Schilling as she walked home from work through Rock Creek Park.
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Her fiancé was in prison for a crime he said he didn’t commit. She’d stood by him ever since his arrest just a month after he’d asked her to marry him. But now, seven years later, Dean Cage was telling her to give up. It was August 2001, and in the prickly heat inside a
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Prosecutors are saying a Kentucky man who served about nine years in prison for a shooting death and robbery is innocent. Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney David Stengel said Tuesday that Edwin A. Chandler was innocent of the 1993 slaying of a convenience store clerk. Another man has been indicted in the killing. Chandler’s attorney, Marguerite
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Jennifer Schuett’s search for the man who snatched her from her bed when she was 8, sexually assaulted her and left her for dead on top of an ant hill ended Tuesday with the arrest of a suspect. Now begins another chapter in Schuett’s 19-year quest for justice. Standing in front of the television cameras,
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A Virginia man who spent 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit will get more than $632,000 in restitution, following a unanimous decision Wednesday by state lawmakers. Arthur Whitfield, 54, of Norfolk was convicted in 1982 and sentenced to 63 years in prison. A 2004 DNA test proved his innocence and
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