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silvershadow

(10,336 posts) Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:34 AM Apr 2016

New DNA technology helped clear man in 1989 rape

LAKE COUNTY, Ind. -- A northwest Indiana man who served nearly 25 years in prison was released on Monday after new DNA technology cleared him in a 1989 rape.

Darryl Pinkins, 63, walked out of a Lake County correctional facility shortly before 11 a.m. "48 Hours'" cameras captured Pinkins' emotional reunion with his family, including a 24-year-old son who wasn't yet born when he began his prison term. Producers have followed his story two years.

Pinkins was convicted in 1991 of raping a Hammond woman. He's always maintained he was at home in bed with his wife when the attack happened.

Since 2007, teams from the Indiana and Idaho Innocence Projects and the Indiana University Law School wrongful conviction clinic have been working to prove his innocence. The case marks the first exoneration using a new DNA analysis program called TrueAllele, according to an Innocence Project news release. The process can provide reanalysis of old DNA results to pinpoint which people contributed to DNA mixtures.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-dna-technology-helps-clear-indiana-man-darryl-pinkins-in-1989-rape/

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New DNA technology helped clear man in 1989 rape (Original Post) silvershadow Apr 2016 OP

Each of the many cases like this is a clear declaration Orrex Apr 2016 #1

Absolutely. The death penalty is man's most heinous act, in all forms, including under the silvershadow Apr 2016 #2

Orrex

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1. Each of the many cases like this is a clear declaration

Reply to silvershadow (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 07:09 AM

Apr 2016

that we must abolish the death penalty.

Congratulations to Mr. Pinkins on his long overdue exoneration, and shame on the judicial system that stole his life from him.

silvershadow

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2. Absolutely. The death penalty is man's most heinous act, in all forms, including under the