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Thirty years for anything
Yesterday in Dallas happily over another human drama associated with the error in the identification of the offender, lengthy prison terms and the revision of the criminal case after a DNA test.
In 1980, Cornelius Dupree was sentenced to 75 years in prison on charges of kidnapping and robbery and 26-year-old woman who testified against him.
For 30 years, Dupree, pleaded not guilty, was fighting for justice, twice refused parole, requiring recognition of a prisoner in the crime.
In July 2010, Dupree was released from prison for good behavior, and two weeks after that, data were obtained DNA test that fully confirmed his innocence.
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During Tuesday, January 4, 2011 US District Judge Don Adams announced 51-year-old Cornelius Dupree free man.
Dupree was the 265th convicted in the United States in recent years, from which the charges were dropped a felony after a DNA test.
The American press has now become more and more to write about the fact that such tragic mistakes undermined confidence in the fairness of the judicial system - in particular, to the testimony of witnesses, suggesting the need for legal reforms and unconditional abolition of the death penalty in the country.



Coming out of prison in July, Dupree married a woman with whom he had met twenty years ago, when he was still in prison. Selma was waiting for him all these years. Now they live together at his home in Dallas.
Only two unjustly convicted spent in prison more than Dupree - James Bain from Florida, who spent 35 years behind bars, and Lawrence McKinney from Tennessee who served in '31.
Note that all three of them - blacks. Bain and McKinney, released over a year ago, so far, not been able to resolve the issue of compensation.



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