DNA Evidence Frees Man After 15 Years in Prison
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Jurors convicted Jeffrey Mark Deskovic in 1990 even though they were told the DNA evidence did not point to him.
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A man who was convicted in 1990 of raping and murdering a high school classmate when he was 16 was freed from prison Wednesday after DNA evidence implicated another man.
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A Sri Lankan man has been released from prison after spending 50 years on remand, his lawyer said Monday.
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A Georgia man, who served 17 years in  prison for rape and robbery, was freed on Tuesday, one week  after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongly convicted of the  crime.
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MADISON, Wis., Feb. 6 -- A former child-care provider sent to prison more than a decade ago in the fatal shaking of a baby was freed Wednesday, six days after an appeals court ruled that the latest research into shaken baby syndrome might prove her innocence.
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A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a man convicted of murder after DNA evidence pointed to another suspect.
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from prison for a $15,000 bribe.
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A world-renowned geneticist was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for molesting an employee's daughter who took martial arts classes at his home.
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A man in prison for rape has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women, including three that another man was convicted of committing, police said Saturday.
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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 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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Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday against a Texas man who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he may not have committed.
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A man who had his death sentence commuted amid claims he was wrongly convicted of killing a teenage girl 31 years ago has been linked to the slaying by new DNA evidence.
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An American man acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend was released Friday afternoon, his family told CNN.
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A former chief executive of a financial printing firm was sentenced on Friday to 15 months in prison for possessing child porn and erasing thousands of seedy computer files when he learned he was under investigation.
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With little more than the standard &#36;100 in his pocket, Ernest Willis walked out of prison a free man Wednesday after 17 years on death row for a crime that may have never even occurred.
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A murderer who absconded from an open prison and was then recaptured is found hanging in a cell.