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Man Declared 'Factually Innocent' After 10 Years In Prison Ruling Makes Way For State Compensation POSTED: 12:18 pm PST February 18, 2005 UPDATED: 12:30 pm PST February 18, 2005 STOCKTON, Calif. -- A man who went to prison 10 years ago for a rape he didn't commit is a free man after a Stockton court declared him innocent. Peter Rose Peter Rose was cleared by DNA evidence that was not available when he was convicted. The court overturned the conviction last October, and Rose, 37, was set free from prison. But that just meant he was unfairly convicted. On Friday,...

Thursday, September 18, 2003Ohio's Innocence Project takes first cases -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inmate denies driving in fatality By Sharon Coolidge The Cincinnati Enquirer Law students Mary Macpherson (left), LaRhonda Carson and Ian Lin are investigating a case for the Ohio Innocence Project. (Tony Jones photo) A broken windshield, a tuft of hair and a patch of blood could help a group of Cincinnati law students set a convicted killer free. Chris Bennett, who said he lost his memory in a car accident that killed another man, said he's getting his memory back in prison. And he maintains he wasn't the drunken driver...

After 17 years in prison, DNA evidence finds Missouri inmate did not commit three rapes          By Betsy TaylorASSOCIATED PRESS 1:18 p.m., August 25, 2003 ST. LOUIS – A man who served 17 years in prison for three rapes was freed Monday after DNA tests proved he didn't do it. Circuit Judge Jimmie Edwards apologized to Lonnie Erby for the wrongful conviction, noting that the science of criminal investigation has improved since 1986. Erby said of the apology: "That was the one thing I was waiting for." Erby, 49, was sentenced to 115 years for the 1985 attacks on...

<p>NEW YORK -- Robert Blecker sat quietly as other professors ticked off their reasons for opposing the death penalty: It's unfair to blacks. It doesn't really deter crime. Innocent people could be executed.</p> <p>But Blecker, a professor at New York Law School, was having none of it. When it was his turn to speak at the recent death-penalty forum at John Jay College, he summed up his support for executions in three words: ''Barbara Jo Brown.''</p>