Wrongfully Convicted Calif. Man Released
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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If it weren't for DNA testing, Willie "Pete" Williams would still be rotting away in a Georgia prison. Instead, he was released after serving nearly 22 years for a rape he didn't commit. The Innocence Project works to free others who are wrongfully jailed in American prisons.
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A Georgia court ordered the release on Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a girl when the two were teenagers.
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SANTA ANA, California  - The inmate in the Orange County jail had been arrested before, but this time was different. After the first interview, he was led to a second, where he was told that if convicted he could be deported.
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A man who was freed after serving 22 years for a rape he didn't commit walked out of jail with a few possessions in a plastic bag, and nothing else.
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A former state senator released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme must return to jail, an appeals court ruled Monday.
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A man acquitted of a murder 17 years ago finally admits his guilt after a change in the double jeopardy law.
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Smiling and soft-spoken, Timothy Masters walked out of court a free man for the first time in nearly a decade Tuesday, his murder conviction wiped out by DNA evidence that points to another suspect.
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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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The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday ordered the release of a man who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was two years older than she was.
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A British man who once came within days of being executed was released from an Ohio prison Monday after spending more than 21 years on death row, court officials said.
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A man who served nearly 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit has been released from prison based on new testing of DNA evidence.
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Two men convicted of trying to kill the former U.S. ambassador to Yemen were ordered released by an appeals court on Monday.
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A convicted sex offender who absconded from a Lincolnshire open prison is recaptured by police.
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A man facing criminal charges for a freakish accident that decapitated his friend has been released from jail after the victim's relatives pleaded on his behalf.
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A judge agreed Thursday to release a man serving a 20-year sentence for a 1992 rape that DNA tests showed he didn't commit.
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A man found guilty 17 years ago of murdering his parents as a teenager was freed from prison Thursday, days after an appeals court overturned the conviction and ordered a retrial because of new evidence.