Tag: Alan Newton
By Jeralyn, Section Innocence Cases
Posted on Wed Oct 20, 2010 at 06:40:48 PM EST
Tags: Alan Newton, wrongful conviction (all tags)
Posted on Wed Oct 20, 2010 at 06:40:48 PM EST
Tags: Alan Newton, wrongful conviction (all tags)
Alan Newton served 22 years for a rape he didn't commit. For years, New York police kept insisting there was no DNA to test. The Innocence Project took up his case and got a DA to find the evidence the police insisted didn't exist:
The rape kit, it turned out, was in its original storage bin from 1984, Barrel No. 22, in the same police warehouse that the authorities said they had searched at least three times since Mr. Newton first asked in 1994.
The DNA cleared Newton and he was released from prison in 2006. A New York jury yesterday awarded him $18.5 million in damages.
The Innocent Project said in 2006 that Newton could have been cleared in 1994, and that 17 other inmates face the same dilemma.
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