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TX - Wrongly convicted US man cleared after 25 years

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Original Article See the video at the site above. 01/28/2011 A Texas man has walked free from prison after DNA tests suggested he is not guilty of committing a sexual assault for which he was convicted. [name withheld], 61, had five months of his 25-year sentence left to serve. He was originally found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at party in 1986. New DNA evidence showed that the alleged victim had had sex with somebody else and not [name withheld], leading a Dallas judge to order his release. But only a Texas appeals court has the power to completely exonerate him. [name withheld] will still have to wear an electronic tag and register as a sex offender until his name has been cleared. His lawyers say that if he is declared an innocent man, they are likely to press for some form of financial compensation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).

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