DNA Helps Ga. Free Wrongly Convicted Man
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A man wrongly convicted of rape, kidnapping and robbery was freed Tuesday after 17 years in prison &#151; exonerated by a new test of DNA evidence and "unusually" helpful prosecutors.
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A man who spent seven years in prison for rape before a DNA test exonerated him will get $3.9 million from the city, authorities said.
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US police have collected a DNA sample from the mouth of singer Michael Jackson, who is accused of child molestation, a day after raiding his Neverland ranch to prepare for his trial.
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New rules will allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities.
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A man exonerated after spending 18 years in prison on a murder conviction has started a nonprofit foundation to help investigate inmates' innocence claims.
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NASHVILLE, Dec. 2 -- A convicted murderer who escaped from a work-release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working in construction using his real name, U.S. marshals announced Saturday.
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State lawyers have agreed to allow DNA testing of dog hair that was used to convict Wayne Williams, who has been blamed for the murders of two dozen children and young men in the late 1970s and early '80s.
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A judge in Monroe County, Georgia, has ruled that 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had when he was 17. He has been imprisoned for more than two years after his conviction for a sex act with a 15-year-old girl. But the state attorney general quickly filed a notice of appeal, keeping Wilson in prison for the time being.
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A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
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A special prosecutor said Friday that the conviction of a man serving life in prison in the slaying of a woman should be tossed out because new DNA evidence points to another suspect.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in case brought by prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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A man who spent 21 years behind bars for the rape of a police officer's wife was freed Friday after being cleared by DNA testing.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in a case brought by prosecutors desperately trying to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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Texas officials freed a man who spent 12 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of molesting a 3-year-old girl.
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The DNA of a man accused of murdering an 11-year-old child in 1975 matched that found on her body, a court hears.
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A study suggests that there are thousands of people serving long sentences for crimes they did not commit but who have no hope that DNA can clear them.
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Genarlow Wilson walked out of prison a free man on Friday, thanks to an extraordinary intervention by the Georgia Supreme Court.