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Post by ♫anna♫ on Mar 13, 2009 21:13:31 GMT
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509149,00.html QUOTE: DNA Test Clears Ohio Inmate of Rape After 25 Years in Prison Friday, March 13, 2009 Print ShareThisCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge in Ohio has released a man who spent 25 years in prison after a new DNA test cleared him of raping a woman. Sixty-one-year-old Joseph Fears Jr. sobbed in a Columbus court Tuesday. He had been convicted of separate rapes in 1983. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said DNA testing on evidence found in the prosecutor's evidence room linked one of the rapes to a Michigan prisoner, who has since died. O'Brien also said underwear collected from the victim of the other rape contained no male DNA. That conviction stands for now, but O'Brien said Fears should be released based on the time he's served. Fears was one of 30 inmates profiled in a series last year by The Columbus Dispatch, which examined cases where applications for new DNA testing had been stalled
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Post by mindy on Mar 14, 2009 1:04:45 GMT
What a shame and thank goodness justice was finally served and this man was released! Can you imagine if he would have been sentenced to death?
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Post by iamjumbo on Mar 29, 2009 13:37:28 GMT
it is always a tragedy when a truly innocent person is wrongfully convicted of a crime. that means that there is a criminal running loose, free and clear, while another sits in prison for something that they didn't do
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Post by Big Lin on Mar 29, 2009 20:32:49 GMT
O'Brien also said underwear collected from the victim of the other rape contained no male DNA.
This is a very strange result. Is O'Brien saying that no DNA at all is available or that the DNA is female?
Either way, it's a weird statement.
I get very divided about rape cases.
On the one hand, I have total contempt for rapists and support tougher sentences for rape.
On the other hand, a false accusation of rape is one of the worst things that can happen to a man as well.
I'm also worried about the fact that an increasing number of rape convictions are being overturned by DNA.
In fact DNA exonerations are PARTICULARLY common in rape cases.
What the hell is going wrong with the justice and evidence system?
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Post by chefmate on Mar 29, 2009 20:48:42 GMT
DA's in a hurry to wrap a case up and look good in front of the voters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2009 9:19:47 GMT
The overturning of "old" convictions is perhaps understandable. But a few years back our local paper carried a story of a man who spent several months in custody awaiting trial for an alleged "stranger rape". His parents spent their own money getting forensic proof that the accuser had in fact been to his flat - she convicted of wasting police time or something and was sent to jail (though I think she spent a shorter time inside than he did).
I was disturbed to think that the police had not even bothered to investigate his version of events.
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