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James Bain - Man Exonerated after 35 Years in Jail

by Gordon Clark | December 17, 2009 at 11:25 am

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James Bain is the latest person to be released from US jails because DNA testing proved that he could not have committed the crime. He has been released after wrongly spending 35 years in a Florida jail for raping and kidnapping a 9-year-old boy.

James Bain said, "I am not anrgy." Although he likely was angry when he was wrongly accused, I don't think that angry would be a normal emotion for someone being released from jail after 35 years.

On Thursday, state attorney Jerry Hill told the judge that DNA testing had excluded Bain from the crime.

"He's just not connected with this particular incident," Hill said.

"You are a free man," the judge told Bain.

Of the 245 people that have been exonerated by DNA testing, no person has wrongly spent more time in jail that James Bain.

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tikun

at 11:30 on December 17th, 2009

I can not even imagine the pain and suffering this man has gone through.

Amy Judd

at 14:45 on December 17th, 2009

Wow, 35 years..... that's terrible.

Uwe Paschen

at 16:49 on December 17th, 2009

How many such cases exist around the globe?

How many are in prison for crimes they did not even know of until incarcerated for terrorism or worth...

Prisons are filled with to may such cases, wile real criminals walk free and find them self protected by governments and multi national and even once cough end up rewarded with tax payer money and a pat on the back...

Hugh Askew

at 20:08 on December 17th, 2009

Best part of his life rotting away. Let us hope the state will at the very least give him a large enough settlement that he doesn't have to spend the rest of his life in poverty.