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CHARLES TAYLOR, former Liberian President, in a letter announcing that he will not attend his war-crimes trial at a U.N.-backed special court. Taylor is charged with incitement to recruit child soldiers and to commit murder and rape...
...hold a retrial, athough they do have that option. According to Neufeld, none of the 201 exonerations have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn't commit, did not prosecute Johnson again. "I applaud the efforts of the Innocence Project," Keller says. "If not for that project, Calvin would still be in jail, which would be an absolute travesty." Keller now works with the Georgia Innocence Project, trying to get legislation passed...
...Exoneration: In 2006, 23 years after his conviction, some of the DNA from a rape kit that had never been tested was found not to belong to Waller. A judge vacated his conviction and Gov. Rick Perry officially pardoned him on March 9, 2007. He was the 200th person the Innocence Project exonerated. "I want to get married again," he told CNN. "I want a wife and I want a baby and I'll probably will name her Grace... If I have a boy, I may name him Mercy...
...Crime: After being charged, but not convicted, in a 1981 rape case, Johnson became a primary suspect in a series of two rapes that took place two days apart in March 1983. Both female victims, from College Park, Ga., were choked and sexually assaulted by a black man, and one of them identified Johnson as the rapist in a photo lineup. He was convicted for that incident of rape, aggravated sodomy and burglary...
...Exoneration: In 1997, after several failed attempts for a new trial, the Innocence Project took on Johnson's case, filing an extraordinary motion for a new trial, which would allow DNA testing from the rape kit to be conducted. DNA from the kit did not match Johnson's, and after a new trial in 1999, the District Attorney dropped all charges. "I don't see any reason to harbor any bitterness," Johnson said after his release. "If you hold something like that inside you, it just destroys you. Now it's time for me to go on with my life...