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DNA test frees falsely convicted man

China Daily | Updated: 2007-02-06 07:57

Willie Williams smiled but looked stunned as he emerged from Fulton County jail one night last month, more than two decades after he was jailed for a rape he did not commit.

DNA test frees falsely convicted man

Willie “Pete” Williams, who was released from prison after 21 years, smiles as he speaks at the office of the Georgia Innocence Project in Atlanta,Georgia, on January 25, 2007. Reuters

He was the latest of around 192 people freed in the United States since 1989 because DNA tests applied to old evidence proved them not guilty, according to Eric Ferrero, communications director of the Innocence Project in New York.

"I always kept the faith .... I was (bitter) for about 10 years and then I just gave it over to the Lord," Williams told reporters before his mother and family members whisked him away.

DNA test frees falsely convicted man

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