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Man Exonerated After 22 Years in Prison Adjusting to New-Found Freedom

Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006

By: Leonard Greene, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com

It's been one stop after another for freed inmate Alan Newton, who was released from prison last week after 22 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.

After a week of parties, picnics and public appearances, Newton, a former bank teller from the Bronx, is adjusting to life on the outside after DNA testing cleared him in the vicious rape and beating of a Bronx woman whose shaky identification sent him away for nearly half his life.

DNA from Newton that was compared to a sperm sample recovered as evidence after the rape showed conclusively that Newton had nothing to do with the brutal attack.

But the DNA comparison did not take place until more than a dozen years after Newton made a motion for the test. [end excerpt]

--http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/newton713

92 posted on 07/16/2006 11:10:07 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

Trouble with a capitalizing Tee
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93 posted on 07/17/2006 1:34:56 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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