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DNA Clears Man: 35 Years in Jail for Crime He Didn't Commit
4 hours ago ago from Criminal News Stories
Criminal News Stories Today News for: crime DNA Clears Man: 35 Years in Jail for Crime He Didn't Commit National Ledger DNA evidence has cleared the man for decades old crime that he never committed. Bain was convicted at the age of 19 of raping a 9-year-old boy in Lake Wales
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19 hours ago ago from Crime and Consequences Blog
DNA Solves 1987 Murder: A DNA test has helped the Detroit Police Department's Cold Case Team crack a 22-year-old murder case. Doug Guthrie of the Detroit News reports that Anthony Diquet Phillips, Sr., was arrested in Virgina and will be extradited to Michigan for a murder trial. On March 4, 1987, a burglar broke into Lacey Tarver's home on Detroit's west side. When Tarver confronted the burglar, he was beaten to death. An article by Amber ...
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20 hours ago ago from Vancouverite
Freed, finally. BARTOW, Florida James Bain walked out of prison a free man after spending 35 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, according to the Innocence Project. He became the 248th person exonerated through DNA evidence in the U.S. Bain was convicted of kidnapping and raping a nine-year-old boy in Lake Wales, Florida, in 1974, the Innocence Project said. The victim described the perpetrator and the victim’s ...
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2 hours ago ago from Dandelion Ink
James Bain walks as a free man today. After spending 35 years in prison for a rap and kidnapping of a 9 year old boy that he did not commit, Bain was exonerated. According to CNN In 2001, Florida passed a statute allowing cases to be reopened for DNA testing. Bain submitted handwritten motions four times seeking such testing but was denied each time. His fifth attempt was successful after an appeals court ruled he was entitled to a hearing. ...
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4 hours ago ago from Planet of Spookothopia
A US man has become the longest-serving prisoner to be freed after DNA evidence proved he was innocent of the crime he was convicted of three decades ago. Tagged: crime, DNA, free, innocence, prison, U.S., US
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Federal Hate Crime Cases at Highest Level Since ’01
19 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON Two days after the Justice Department announced federal indictments related to the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant in Shenandoah, Pa., federal authorities said the charges were part of a larger effort to step up civil rights enforcement after nearly eight years of decreased hate crime prosecutions. Thomas E. Perez, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said the department brought more federal hate crime ...
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6 hours ago ago from PopEater
BARTOW, Fla. -For years, James Bain insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister when a 9-year-old boy was kidnapped and raped. The victim had picked him out of a lineup, and his repeated pleas for DNA testing were rejected until the Innocence Project of Florida got involved in his case earlier this year. On Thursday, he was finally set free. He made his first-ever cell phone call, to tell his elderly mother he was out of prison ...
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Thirty-one hate crime cases were filed in 2009, making this year's tally the highest since 2001, the New York Times reports . Federal authorities said the number reflects a renewed effort to prosecute hate crimes. This month, the Government Accountability Office report said that there had been a drop in enforcement of several major antidiscrimination and voting rights laws from 2001-2007. Thomas Perez, the new head of the Justice ...
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