A 56-year-old man who spent 25 years behind bars for a rape he says he didn't commit walked out of court a free man Friday after a judge recommended his aggravated rape conviction be overturned.
Johnnie Earl Lindsey said he wrote six letters to a Dallas County court seeking post-conviction DNA testing that could prove his innocence. All six were ignored, he said...
He becomes the 20th man in Dallas County proven innocent by DNA testing since 2001, although one of those men will be retried by prosecutors. Those 20 cases are a national high for one county, according to the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center specializing in wrongful conviction cases.
Is this just Dallas, or is Dallas just the one doing most of the re-assessment of evidence? Then there's the old saw about women never lying about rape. What other type of event in human existence does nobody ever lie about? I can't think of any. CV actually worked a rape crisis hotline for a while, until one night a call came in and I reported to find a woman who was claiming to have been gang raped. She was lying. It was so transparent she couldn't have fooled a five-year-old.
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