Prosecutor- DNA tests free man serving life sentence

Sunday, July 28, 2002

ST. LOUIS -- DNA testing on evidence long believed to have been destroyed exonerates a "horribly wronged" man who has spent nearly 18 years in prison in the sexual attack of a female college student, a prosecutor said Saturday.

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