DNA proves a Virginia Beach man is innocent of the brutal 1990 rape of a 10-year-old girl who now doubts her courtroom identification of him as the assailant, contends a petition filed with the Virginia Supreme Court.
________, 45, convicted of rape, abduction, forcible sodomy and malicious wounding by a jury in 1991 and sentenced to 100 years in prison, has maintained his innocence, according to his lawyers with the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law.
In perpetual (& connected & corrupt) group therapy, i am being taught to always believe the victim, unless the defendant passes a polygraph. I’m not even kidding. Gotta love NY.
Presumed guilty until proven innocent. Isn’t that the rule? For us, at least?
Every time law enforcement runs DNA through CODIS the negative results of cold hits should be posted to the registry listing.