Tag: DNA evidence
By Jeralyn, Section Innocence Cases
Posted on Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 08:25:38 PM EST
Tags: wrongful conviction, Robert Dewey, DNA evidence (all tags)
Posted on Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 08:25:38 PM EST
Tags: wrongful conviction, Robert Dewey, DNA evidence (all tags)
Robert Dewey, a Colorado inmate sentenced to life without parole for murder, left jail today a free man after serving 18 years of his sentence. DNA testing, using a technology not available at the time of his conviction, proved he was innocent.
Dewey is the 290th person to be exonerated nationwide on the basis of DNA evidence proving factual innocence -- meaning someone else committed the crime.
"I find that Mr. Dewey is factually innocent of the crimes of which he was accused of in this case," the judge said, noting Dewey had spent more the 6,000 days behind bars. "Mr. Dewey is now again a free man."
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