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MORE prisoners freed by DNA testing (from the FOX news site) July , 2006

Johnny Briscoe, 52, walked out of a state prison in Charleston, a day after he was declared innocent by a judge...

St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, who was not the prosecutor when the case was tried, called Briscoe's incarceration a "terrible mistake." He said it was exacerbated by the county crime lab's failure to locate evidence when the prosecutor first requested a review six years ago.

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NEW YORK — A judge signed an order Thursday freeing a man from prison where he had spent more than two decades after being wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape of a 25-year-old woman.

Judge John Byrne signed the order in Bronx Criminal Court while Alan Newton stood quietly with his attorney...

The nonprofit Innocence Project and prosecutors from the Bronx district attorney's office had asked for Newton's 1985 conviction to be vacated based on recent testing on a rape kit used for the woman after the incident.

Newton, now 44, was convicted of raping the woman in an abandoned Bronx building in June 1984. He was sentenced in 1985 to up to 40 years in prison.

HARTFORD, Conn — A man imprisoned more than 18 years for kidnapping and raping a woman was released Tuesday after new forensic tests showed evidence from the crime did not match his DNA.

James Calvin Tillman, 44, told his family he wanted to take a quiet walk for the first time since 1988, when he was imprisoned after his arrest. He was sentenced a year later to 45 years in prison.

"I thank the Lord," he said as he left Hartford Superior Court. "I was innocent all along, so I just kept my faith and let science be science."

(Obviously "science" has yet to be heard of in NC.)