DNA Test Frees Man Imprisoned for 22 Years
From Times Wire Reports
A man who served nearly 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit has been released from prison based on new testing of DNA evidence.
“Thank God for DNA,” a soft-spoken Arthur Lee Whitfield said Tuesday in Norfolk, a day after being released.
Whitfield, 49, was convicted in 1982 of two rapes that occurred within 45 minutes on Aug. 14, 1981. Each woman testified that Whitfield was the attacker.
DNA samples point to a man who is serving a life sentence for an unrelated rape.
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