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Florida Prisoner Exonerated by DNA After Serving 35 Years
Loaded on June 15, 2010
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2010, page 38
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Police Misconduct,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Wrongful Conviction,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
Florida.
After 35 years of proclaiming his innocence for the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old boy, James Bain, 54, was finally proven innocent and released from a Florida prison on December 17, 2009.
Of the 246 prisoners nationwide exonerated by DNA evidence, Bain served the most ...
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