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...could not identify her attacker - only that he was wearing a tan shirt. Pierce, part of the landscaping crew for her apartment complex, happened to be wearing a tan shirt and was placed in the photo lineup. The victim identified him, and he was sentenced to 65 years in prison for rape and robbery...
...examined the hairs in 2001, it found they did not belong to Pierce, but to another convicted felon. "I hope you all won't forget about them, too, because there are more," he said upon his release, about others who had been wrongly convicted, after spending 15 years in prison. "I'm just the one that opened the door, and I feel there will be a lot more coming out behind...
...white man whose skin was "a honey brown color." Four months later, the victim saw Byrd, who is black, at a grocery store and said he was the man who had raped her. Based on this identification, Byrd was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison...
...Exoneration: When Byrd was tried in 1989 in Harris County, Texas, DNA testing was not admissible. He had served 12 years in prison before DNA found at the rape scene was proven to exclude Byrd. He was freed and pardoned by then Texas Gov. George W. Bush in 1997. That year, he told Larry King that he is not angry with the judge who convicted him or the victim who falsely identified him. "I'm just not angry. I don't hold grudges," he said...
...Plymouth, Minn.When people accuse me of that, I always say, well, at least I have one. Secondly, the issue itself includes so many parts. It's got a health care component. And and education component, considering the impact of illegal immigation on our school system. It's got a prison component-27% of our federal prison population are criminal aliens. There are environmental issues that nobody wants to talk about but that I think are very significant. And also the culture itself. Right now we are balkanizing America and not assimilating, and there are major implications for that alone...