The Co founder and standing President of this orginization mentioned below (GIP) is one of my closest friends. Her Name is Jill..She be the bomb. Can you imagine getting out of Prison after 17 years...for something you didn't do!!!
GEORGIA MAN EXONERATED OF RAPE CHARGES AFTER 17 YEARS IN PRISON
Atlanta August 26, 2004
DNA test results have ruled out Clarence Harrison as the perpetrator of a rape for which he was convicted in 1987. Brown, 44, of Decatur, has spent more than 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Through the cooperation of The Georgia Innocence Project (GIP) and the DeKalb County District Attorneys Office, DNA testing was performed in August 2004 that exonerated Mr. Harrison. The District Attorneys office is now working with GIP attorneys to secure Mr. Harrisons release from prison as soon as possible.
The Georgia Innocence Project was founded less than two years ago, and Clarence Harrison is the first prisoner to be exonerated through GIPs efforts. According to GIP Executive Director Aimee Maxwell, Clarence Harrison is the very reason that the Georgia Innocence Project was founded. Through DNA technology and the hard work of lawyers and law students committed to justice, justice may now finally be served.
GIP first learned of Clarence Harrisons case in February 2003, when Mr. Harrison wrote to GIP, having unsuccessfully sought help from other organizations. At one point, he was told that all the evidence from his case had been destroyed, but GIP was able to track down one slide from the rape kit. Until 2003, counties could dispose of physical evidence in criminal cases after just one court appeal. Under a new Georgia law, all evidence that might contain DNA must be preserved for ten years.
Clarence Harrison has maintained his innocence for the past 17 years.
GEORGIA MAN EXONERATED OF RAPE CHARGES AFTER 17 YEARS IN PRISON
Atlanta August 26, 2004
DNA test results have ruled out Clarence Harrison as the perpetrator of a rape for which he was convicted in 1987. Brown, 44, of Decatur, has spent more than 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Through the cooperation of The Georgia Innocence Project (GIP) and the DeKalb County District Attorneys Office, DNA testing was performed in August 2004 that exonerated Mr. Harrison. The District Attorneys office is now working with GIP attorneys to secure Mr. Harrisons release from prison as soon as possible.
The Georgia Innocence Project was founded less than two years ago, and Clarence Harrison is the first prisoner to be exonerated through GIPs efforts. According to GIP Executive Director Aimee Maxwell, Clarence Harrison is the very reason that the Georgia Innocence Project was founded. Through DNA technology and the hard work of lawyers and law students committed to justice, justice may now finally be served.
GIP first learned of Clarence Harrisons case in February 2003, when Mr. Harrison wrote to GIP, having unsuccessfully sought help from other organizations. At one point, he was told that all the evidence from his case had been destroyed, but GIP was able to track down one slide from the rape kit. Until 2003, counties could dispose of physical evidence in criminal cases after just one court appeal. Under a new Georgia law, all evidence that might contain DNA must be preserved for ten years.
Clarence Harrison has maintained his innocence for the past 17 years.
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