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Ohio man is officially exonerated
Posted: August 26, 2008 4:40 pm
After serving 17 years in Ohio prison for a rape he didn’t commit, Robert McClendon was released August 11 due to DNA evidence of his innocence. This morning, he appeared again in a Columbus courtroom, as a judge dismissed charges pending against him. He was also declared a “wrongfully imprisoned person” – making him eligible for compensation under Ohio law, and the judge moved to expunge his record immediately.
"It's sweet. It's very sweet," McClendon said. "It's been a long time coming. I've been fighting for a long time. It gives a lot of people in your corner validation."McClendon is the 220th person exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States, and the seventh in Ohio.
Read the full story here. (NBC 4, Columbus)
Testing in his case was obtained as part of a joint project between the Columbus Dispatch and the Ohio Innocence Project. An Ohio lab provided DNA testing pro bono.
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