Broadhead's numbers are heading south. He didn't get any help from me either.
DNA releaseD another two . . .
RICHMOND, Dec. 14 ,2005 Washington Post -- Newly tested DNA from rapes committed more than 20 years ago has exonerated two Virginians who had each spent more than a decade behind bars. . .
One of the defendants served 20 years in prison for a rape in Alexandria that the new testing shows he did not commit. The other man was released in 1992 after serving about 11 years for an assault in Norfolk.
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Both of the recent cases had relied heavily on eyewitness testimony. . .
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The new testing conclusively proved that Virginia should not have jailed the Norfolk and Alexandria men and produced a "cold hit" linking someone else to the Alexandria rape...
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Prosecutors in Alexandria and Norfolk have requested that the governor issue complete pardons in both cases.
(YOU MEAN, THEY ACCEPTED DNA EVIDENCE AS CONCLUSIVE???)
In May 2003, Warner (also) pardoned Julius Earl Ruffin, 49, of Virginia Beach, who was (also) cleared by DNA evidence after spending 21 years in prison for rape.
Marvin Lamont Anderson of Hanover County and Arthur Lee Whitfield of Norfolk each spent more than a decade in prison for crimes they did not commit and were exonerated by evidence in Burton's files.
(EXONERATED BY DNA?? BUT WE KNOW THAT YOU CAN STILL RAPE SOMEONE AND NOT LEAVE YOUR DNA, RIGHT? AND THAT IF SOMEONE ELSE'S DNA IS FOUND, THAT IS MEANINGLESS, RIGHT?)