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To: steve harris who wrote (293631)	7/6/2006 10:57:17 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572417

re: Rape and murder? Execute him. Do you have any idea how often this stuff happens? July 6, 2006, 5:03AM Lawyers: DNA Clears Man of 1984 Rape © 2006 The Associated Press NEW YORK — Lawyers say DNA evidence exonerates a 44-year-old man convicted more than two decades ago in a brutal rape. The nonprofit Innocence Project and prosecutors from the Bronx district attorney's office were to file papers Thursday asking for Alan Newton's 1985 conviction to be vacated based on recent testing on a rape kit performed on the woman after the incident. Officials at the Innocence Project _ a nonprofit legal clinic and criminal justice organization _ said they expected Newton would be released from prison after a hearing at Bronx Criminal Court. "Al Newton has always maintained his innocence, and he lost any chance of parole three separate times because he wouldn't admit to a crime he didn't commit," Innocence Project lawyer Vanessa Potkin said in a statement. Newton was convicted of raping the 25-year-old woman in an abandoned Bronx building in June 1984. He was sentenced in 1985 to up to 40 years in prison. In 1994 he filed a motion asking that new DNA testing be conducted, but the request was denied because the evidence was unavailable, the Innocence Project and prosecutors wrote in court papers to be filed Thursday. A similar request was granted four years later, but testing of the victim's clothing "failed to yield the presence of male DNA," the papers said. At the request of the Innocence Project, the Bronx district attorney's office last year asked the New York Police Department's property clerk division to search for the rape kit at an evidence warehouse in Queens. The result "conclusively excludes" Newton as the assailant, according to the papers.