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Suspected Rapist With Identical Twin Freed Over DNA
CBS News ^ | April 30, 2014

Posted on 04/30/2014 2:35:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A suspect in two violent rapes in Boston a decade ago has been freed because DNA testing could not differentiate him from his identical twin brother.

Dwayne McNair, 33, was freed by a judge on Tuesday after spending two years behind bars awaiting trial. He was released from an eight-count indictment that charged him with raping two young women, reports the Boston Herald. Prosecutors say the 23- and 19-year-old victims were abducted at gunpoint off city streets within days of each other in 2004, pistol-whipped, and raped.

2011 tests of DNA left at the scene couldn't distinguish between McNair's DNA and that of his twin brother, and prosecutors relied on statements by an alleged accomplice to indict McNair, reports the Herald.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: crime; massachusetts; twin

1 posted on 04/30/2014 2:35:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

There’s a corroborating witness. Who needs DNA??


2 posted on 04/30/2014 2:38:37 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: nickcarraway
So where's the twin brother? Why can't they question them both separately and get a little closer to the truth.

Generally, nobody commits violent rapes out of the blue. There should be more than DNA evidence involved here.

3 posted on 04/30/2014 2:39:37 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: nickcarraway

Even if the DNA is identical, there are tests that can distinguish between samples. (Differing immunity responses, since they probably have not had identical disease histories. Differing epigentics, methylization of their DNA will be at varying locations. Differing strains of normal bacterial fauna the perp picked up from the victims that the innocent man won’t have)


4 posted on 04/30/2014 2:51:41 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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The alleged accomplice has already pleaded guilty to the rapes and implicated McNair as a co-conspirator.

So the DNA evidence narrows it down to two people and the accomplice narrows it down to one. So what is the problem?

5 posted on 04/30/2014 2:53:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Vigilanteman
There should be more than DNA evidence involved here.

Agreed. Fingerprints, for example (similar but not identical).

6 posted on 04/30/2014 2:59:27 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Why is new DNA evidence good enough to free people on ‘death row’, but never good enough to execute someone?


7 posted on 04/30/2014 3:16:57 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: nickcarraway

Stuff like this wouldn’t happen if the familiy of the victim just shot the sobs who pull legal stunts.


8 posted on 04/30/2014 3:18:15 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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Twin 12 gauge slugs from a double-barreled shotgun.

They could make a Federal ammo commercial out of it....kind of like the old doublemint gum commercials.

9 posted on 04/30/2014 3:36:21 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why are cops ROE more lenient against us, here in the US, than U.S. military's ROE's in a war zone?)
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