A Florida fugitive - wrongly sentenced for 50 yrs, on the run and finally - liberated
Orlando Boquete was sentenced to 50 years for a crime he never committed . He broke out of prison, on the run for 10 yrs till a DNA testing procedure proved his innocence.
The scariest part of the whole story is that DNA testing as a technique had been always available. But according to Jim Dwyer of the New York Times magazine who wrote this piece on Boquete's story:
How many Boquete's has India produced?
The scariest part of the whole story is that DNA testing as a technique had been always available. But according to Jim Dwyer of the New York Times magazine who wrote this piece on Boquete's story:
"During the 1990s, many prosecutors in Florida, and elsewhere, fiercely resisted DNA testing for people already in prison. Such tests often poked embarrassing holes in the original investigations. After an innocent man died on death row — the prosecutors opposed testing until the man, Frank Lee Smith, was terminally ill — the State Legislature passed a law that explicitly permitted convicts to seek DNA testing, as long as they asked by Oct. 1, 2003."
How many Boquete's has India produced?
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