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He Was Convicted Of A Rape He Didn’t Commit And Spent 18 Years In Prison. He Was Just Released.

Ashe Schow
He Was Convicted Of A Rape He Didn’t Commit And Spent 18 Years In Prison. He Was Just Released.
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The advent of DNA testing helped free hundreds of wrongfully convicted men. The Innocence Project reported that there have been 367 DNA exonerations to date, starting with the first one in 1989. Thanks to advancements in science, new DNA exonerations are still happening.

In 2002, Kerry Robinson was convicted of raping a 42-year-old woman in February 1993. Robinson, who was 26 at the time of his conviction, had been accused of breaking into her home with two other teenagers. Robinson would have been about 17 at the time of the rape.

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