Dennis Maher
Posted By The Editors | March 30th, 2010 | Category: Exoneree of the Week | Comments Off
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In 1984, Dennis Maher was convicted of three separate rape and sexual assaults committed in Massachusetts the previous year. The Innocence Project took Maher’s case in 1993, and repeatedly tried to gain access to biological evidence, but was told that the evidence could not be located. In 2001, a law student discovered two boxes containing the pants and underwear collected from the rape victim. Testing on the underwear and a second slide located by prosecutors from the Ayer case, excluded Maher as the source of semen. He was officially exonerated this week in 2003. Maher recently wrote an article stressing the need for a comprehensive DNA testing statute in Massachusetts.
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