DNA clears man accused in child rape
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DNA taken from a child rape victim cleared a 23-year-old man charged in the case, prompting prosecutors to ask Wednesday for the charges to be dismissed.
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By Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 1--A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors may test additional items for DNA evidence linked to last year's rape and murders of two women, allegedly at the hands of a Comcast cable repairman.
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Big Brother makes a clerical error The stabbing death of a convicted rapist 35 days after he was released from prison may have stemmed from a public database that erroneously described him as a child molester, California police say.â¦
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A group of footballers accused of gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in south-east London are cleared.
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DNA tests that lawyers for a convicted killer hoped would help clear him of two dozen murders were inconclusive, the man's defense attorney said Monday.
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Prosecutors in the rape case of US basketball star Kobe Bryant have tried to discredit defence DNA evidence shortly before the trial begins.
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&#151; The FBI said Friday it had completed a DNA analysis of eight-month-old evidence that could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.
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A DNA link is found in the unsolved murders of two young women more than 30 years ago.
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Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated Thursday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he indeed wasn't. The release of Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.
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DNA fingerprints of more than 100 children aged under 10 stored despite their being younger than the age of criminal responsibility.
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Prosecutors in the rape case against U.S. basketball star Kobe Bryant are questioning the validity of DNA evidence crucial to the defense's case, saying data appeared to have been manipulated and might have to be thrown out.
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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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The state of Maryland has paid $200,000 to the parents of a slain 9-year-old boy to settle their claim that the killer, a convicted sex offender, was wrongly freed from prison five days before the murder. But the boy's mother may seek more, her attorney said.
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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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BOULDER, Colo.  - Colorado prosecutors said on   Monday they would not charge schoolteacher John Mark Karr with   the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey because tests showed   his DNA did not match DNA found in her underwear.
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DNA tests back a Sri Lankan couple's claim that a baby boy rescued from the tsunami was their son.
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A DNA match, the investigative break that has solved countless cases, gave Montgomery County detectives the evidence they needed last year to charge a convicted felon with raping a woman in 1993.