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IL - Man cleared of rape by DNA is pardoned

View the article here 12/20/2008 BY MAURICE POSSLEY Went to prison after victim identified him in '87 There was a time when Marcus Lyons was so angry that no one would believe he had been wrongly convicted of a rape that he tried to nail himself to a cross on the front lawn of the DuPage County Courthouse. That was 17 years ago, and Lyons has plenty of believers in his innocence now -- DNA exonerated him last year of the 1987 crime. And Friday, Gov. Blagojevich pardoned Lyons,...br/ br/ To see the rest of this article, please visit the Sex Offender Issues Blog pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SexOffenderIssues?a=azOIhQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SexOffenderIssues?i=azOIhQ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds...continue to full post

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