EXONERATED! (DNA wins freedom for man after 26 years)
I don't have a lot of time to write today, but I have some great news to share.
Thanks to my friend Sir Nico III for alerting me to this.
First an excerpt,followed by a link to the whole article:
DALLAS, Texas (AP) — — A man imprisoned since 1981 for sexual assault was freed after a judge recommended overturning his conviction.
Charles Chatman, 47, was released on his recognizance after serving nearly 27 years of a 99-year sentence. He was freed on the basis of new DNA testing that lawyers say proves his innocence and adds to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates....
To read more, please check out the whole article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/03/dna.exoneration.ap/index.html
i already shared this with you, but but would like to link to it here as well:
http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20080103/477c6bd0_3ca6_1552620080103-1193809064&sent=yes
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Thank you so much, mb! That's an even better article about the case than the one I originally posted. After you sent it to me this morning, I meant to post the link... but got distracted by several other pressing tasks. So I'm happy you added it as a comment.
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a double but!
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lol
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