A man sent to prison more than 15 years ago has been freed after DNA testing concluded he was innocent.
Patrick Waller was behind bars since late 1992 for aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping -- until DNA testing conducted late last year proved his innocense.
But here's an odd twist:
The DNA evidence that freed Waller also eventually implicated the two actual perpetrators of a 1992 robbery and kidnapping.
But those two men — now tied to the crime by their recent confessions in front of a grand jury — are free men and can’t be tried because the statute of limitations has long since expired.
Read more here.
-- Bill Miller
How many people have the DNA tests proved did their crimes? We know how many were innocent but how many have been proven guilty?
Posted by: Mark | July 03, 2008 at 08:35 PM