A Georgia man who served 17 years of a 20-year sentence has been exonerated from his rape conviction and released from prison, after a judge agreed that new analysis of DNA evidence clears him
Kerry Robinson, 44, walked out of prison in southern Georgia on Wednesday and into the arms of his sister, his son and other supporters, hours after a Colquitt County judge vacated his 2002 conviction and sentence."Modern DNA technology has further confirmed what we've known for a long time: Kerry Robinson is an innocent man," one of his lawyers, Rodney Zell, said in a news release from the Georgia Innocence Project, which helped push for Robinson's exoneration.
A jury convicted Robinson and a judge sentenced him to 20 years, but he maintained he was innocent.A scientist refutes the initial DNA analysis, and an exoneration followsMan walks free after 21 years in prison when a witness in the murder case admits to the killingA DNA scientist from Boise State University, Greg Hampikian, had been monitoring the case.
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