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- A DNA exoneration occurs when a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on post-conviction DNA testing (i.e., the DNA testing results were dispositive of actual innocence and central to vacating the conviction and/or dismissing the indictment).
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Sep 7, 2017 · Based on the year of conviction, 83 percent (110 cases) occurred before 1991, but only two exonerations occurred after 2000, both in 2003. In the first case, according to NRE’s website, a DNA analyst identified seminal fluid in two different areas on the victim’s underwear.
Oct 16, 2018 · That was the case for Horace Roberts, 60, who was released from a California prison on Oct. 3 after DNA evidence exonerated him in the 1998 killing of his former girlfriend and co-worker. “I...
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Apr 25, 2023 · According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 575 wrongly convicted people have been exonerated based on DNA tests that demonstrated their innocence since 1989. That includes 196 Innocence Project clients.
The rape that wasn't — the nation's first DNA exoneration. The forensic DNA age dawned with little fanfare on August 14, 1989, when the emerging technology exonerated a hapless high school dropout from a working-class suburb of Chicago of a rape that in fact had not occurred.
Since 1989, the year of the first DNA exoneration, more than 360 people have been exonerated based on DNA evi-dence. The vast majority (> 98 percent) had been wrong-fully convicted of serious felonies involving homicide or sexual assault.
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A DNA exoneration occurs when a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on post-conviction DNA testing (i.e., the DNA testing results were dispositive of actual innocence and central to vacating the conviction and/or dismissing the indictment).
Cases that appear on the IP list include post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States where DNA testing results were central to establishing the innocence of the
