Thursday, April 17, 2008

DNA Tests Free Man of Rape Charges, AFTER 23 years in Prison

A man who spent nearly 23 years in prison in Texas for a rape and burglary he did not commit has been set free in Dallas. Lawyers say he was convicted largely on eyewitness misidentification by the victim. Now a DNA test has shown that McGowan could not have been the man who committed the rape

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