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...have been overturned in 33 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Innocence Project, a nonprofit advocacy group that works to free the wrongly convicted. Seventeen people have been released from death row after DNA evidence cleared them. Scott Fappiano, who spent more than 20 years in prison for the 1983 rape of a New York City woman, walked free in 2006 after testing showed he couldn't have been the attacker. "I just kept waiting," he said as he was released. "I'm just happy that it's over...
...Khamenei likes to project the image of a magnanimous grandfather, selflessly staying above the fray to guide the country in a virtuous direction ... in reality he is notoriously thin-skinned. Criticism of the Leader is one of the few remaining redlines in Iranian politics, almost a guarantee of a prison sentence." - Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a March 2008 report...
...automotive paint; watermarks were painstakingly sketched by hand; a close copy of the secret paper came from leftover newsprint rolls made at local mills. Williams had a successful 10-year run before he was finally caught by the U.S. Secret Service and sentenced in 2002 to three years in prison...
...returned to the subject for a book, The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter. Williams took a stab at making an honest living, but eventually returned to counterfeiting and was arrested again in 2007. He's currently serving a federal prison term scheduled to end in 2013. Kersten spoke with TIME about Williams' remarkable criminal career and the odd allure of duplicating dollars...
...still a relatively young guy, not even 40. What do you think the future may hold for him once he gets out of prison? I really, really hope he doesn't go back to counterfeiting. Art's a great guy with a huge problem. If you meet Art, you don't really feel like you're talking to a criminal. You feel like you're talking to a very bright guy, a very humble guy. But counterfeiters have a higher recidivism rate than heroin addicts - the crime gets in the blood that strongly. So telling myself "He's all done...