Nation IN BRIEF : MARYLAND : DNA Testing Frees Man Jailed 9 Years
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Through two trials and almost nine years in prison, part of that time on Death Row, Kirk Bloodsworth, 32, insisted that he was not guilty of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Now he has walked out of prison in Jessup, Md., a free man, thanks to DNA testing. The testing of semen on the girl’s underclothing indicated that someone else committed the crime.
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