Ulysses Rodriguez Charles
Posted By The Editors | May 18th, 2010 | Category: Exoneree of the Week | Comments Off
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Nine years ago this week, Ulysses Rodriguez Charles was exonerated after spending 17 years in Massachusetts prisons for a rape he didn’t commit.
He was convicted in 1984 of a rape in Brighton, Massachusetts, based mainly on an eyewitness misidentification. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison, and it would be 17 years before DNA testing proved his innocence and set him free. Last year, he settled a lawsuit with the city of Boston for more than $3 million, but he is still facing deportation to his native Trinidad.
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