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Man set Free after spending 38 Years in Prison for False Rape Conviction

#MalcolmAlexander ’s family awaiting his release after nearly 4 decades in prison for a rape he didn’t commit: https://t.co/YmxTGJHndM @InnocenceProjNO pic.twitter.com/eM3eEv2zov — Innocence Project (@innocence) January 30, 2018 A Louisiana man Malcolm Alexander has been released from jail after serving 38 years for a false rape accusation. The Innocence Project, a non-profit which secured the release of Alexander, shared his story, from his journey to prison in 1979, to his eventual release. DNA evidence proved that his conviction – a result of an incompetent lawyer and an unreliable identification process – was wrong. The events that led to his conviction are a little more complicated: Alexander had had consensual sex with a white woman who asked him for money and then accused him of sexual assault. The woman’s accusation was found to be uncorroborated, and the police dropped the case. Another white woman, around the same time, was also sexually assaulted. Her assail...