Arvin McGee
Posted By The Editors | February 23rd, 2010 | Category: Exoneree of the Week | Comments Off
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In 1989, after three trials, Arvin McGee was convicted of the rape of a twenty-year-old woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although McGee maintained his innocence and was suffering from an injury that rendered him physically unable to commit the crime, he was convicted based in part on blood-type testing. McGee was officially exonerated eight years ago this week after Oklahoma authorities re-tested semen samples. The DNA profile matched another man who was already incarcerated in Oklahoma.
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