This link to the UM Law School’s National Registry of Exonerations will depress you, or might even lift your spirits for the few successes they have documented.
Keep in mind - is anyone, even in this day and age, willing to send a man to jail for such nebulous and faint accusations? By a 15 year old girl?
False accusations happens all the time, except to Hollywood producers ...
Yes, and worse. I knew a guy who a little 15 year old accessed of kissing her or some such. No one I'd heard of who knew them both believed her for a minute but that didn't matter. After over a year of being hounded relentlessly by the sheriff's department and a certain Austin reporter (spit), blew his brains out on the back porch right before his wife got home to find his body. The little princess then admitted she'd lied. No charges were ever brought against her, the sheriff's dept's shoddy handling of the case or the reporter's twisting of the truth.