He is longest-serving prisoner exonerated by genetic tests, attorneys say
BARTOW, Fla. - James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
Mobile devices didn't exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and raping him in a nearby field.
Neither did the sophisticated DNA testing that officials more recently used to determine he could not have been the rapist.
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Are WE the only ones who go thru this bullshit? What is my man James (Uncle Ben, is that you?) supposed to do now? Just walk that shit off?
Thank GOD for DNA.
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