Innocence project sets 200th man free
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If anyone remembers the Camden 1 show when Ed rambled (for what seemed like forever) then brought those guys on to do Last Kiss..
The program Ed was endorsing exonerated its 200th person today through DNA testing.
CHICAGO (April 23) - A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case.
Jerry Miller smiled and the courtroom erupted into cheers after Cook County Circuit Court Judge Diane G. Cannon read the ruling that cleared him of all charges.
Miller, 48, had been found guilty of rape, robbery, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery even though he testified he was at home watching television at the time of the 1981 attack. He was paroled in March 2006 and now works two jobs and lives with a family member in a Chicago suburb.
"I want to get on with my life, start a life, have a life," Miller said after the hearing. "I'm just thankful for this day."
The Innocence Project, a New York-based group, had persuaded prosecutors last year to conduct DNA tests on a semen sample taken from the rape victim's clothes. Those results excluded Miller as the attacker.
The case is the 200th in the United States in which a person was convicted, then exonerated based on DNA evidence, the group says. The first exonerations based on DNA testing were in 1989, and in all, the 200 defendants served about 2,475 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit, according to the group's Web site.
"We look at this as a learning moment," said Peter Neufeld, a co-founder of the Innocence Project and one of Miller's lawyers. "What went wrong? We have to get the answer for the future or there'll be too many Jerry Millers."
Miller was arrested in the attack on a 44-year-old woman at a Chicago parking garage in September 1981. The attacker raped her and put her in the trunk of her car, but he ran away when two attendants approached him as he tried to leave the garage.
The attendants helped authorities make a sketch and later picked Miller out of a lineup.
Now that he is exonerated, Miller no longer has to register as a sex offender.
Mark Ertler, deputy supervisor of the Cook County state's attorney's office DNA review unit, told the Chicago Tribune that the case was "a good example of what the DNA unit was intended to do."
The program Ed was endorsing exonerated its 200th person today through DNA testing.
CHICAGO (April 23) - A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case.
Jerry Miller smiled and the courtroom erupted into cheers after Cook County Circuit Court Judge Diane G. Cannon read the ruling that cleared him of all charges.
Miller, 48, had been found guilty of rape, robbery, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery even though he testified he was at home watching television at the time of the 1981 attack. He was paroled in March 2006 and now works two jobs and lives with a family member in a Chicago suburb.
"I want to get on with my life, start a life, have a life," Miller said after the hearing. "I'm just thankful for this day."
The Innocence Project, a New York-based group, had persuaded prosecutors last year to conduct DNA tests on a semen sample taken from the rape victim's clothes. Those results excluded Miller as the attacker.
The case is the 200th in the United States in which a person was convicted, then exonerated based on DNA evidence, the group says. The first exonerations based on DNA testing were in 1989, and in all, the 200 defendants served about 2,475 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit, according to the group's Web site.
"We look at this as a learning moment," said Peter Neufeld, a co-founder of the Innocence Project and one of Miller's lawyers. "What went wrong? We have to get the answer for the future or there'll be too many Jerry Millers."
Miller was arrested in the attack on a 44-year-old woman at a Chicago parking garage in September 1981. The attacker raped her and put her in the trunk of her car, but he ran away when two attendants approached him as he tried to leave the garage.
The attendants helped authorities make a sketch and later picked Miller out of a lineup.
Now that he is exonerated, Miller no longer has to register as a sex offender.
Mark Ertler, deputy supervisor of the Cook County state's attorney's office DNA review unit, told the Chicago Tribune that the case was "a good example of what the DNA unit was intended to do."
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Honestly, if I were him, I'd lose control.
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I wonder how the victim feels about all of this...
this would be a slam dunk to abolish the death penalty.......what the fk gives here....well guess American Humans need they're blood.....and they talk about Muslims....jeese.
Suppose this man was chit-chatting and said "So, I spent 25 years in prison for a sexual assault I didn't commit." people will take a step back and think "yea right".
Because society is blood-thirsty.
I remember reading somewhere, it may have been here, that the number is actually quite large. I attempted to look it up but could not find it.
I can see that, because living in jail is a different way of life, different society. The outside world is so much different and the two are not compatible with each other.
Their last report that they mail out to donors had a couple of nice pictures of Ed and a story about the show where PJ had a couple of recently released innocent prisoners on stage with them
isn't it ironic? a country full of "christians" isn't christianity supposed to be about forgiveness? or does that only apply to jesus?
Well, at least one of the men who Ed brought up on stage wound up back in jail for beating his female probation officer. It was in the Pittsburgh paper the day of the Pittsburgh show last tour. I'm pretty sure it was the one who sang Last Kiss with Ed because the paper said that he had also performed with BB King and others.
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