Four years ago this week, Orlando Boquete was officially exonerated of a sexual assault he did not commit. After a woman was attacked in her Florida Keys apartment in 1982, she described one of the attackers as a shirtless, bald Latino man. Shortly after the rape, Boquete was seen at a convenience store in the area. He was bald and shirtless, but also had a mustache. The victim identified Boquete from the police car twenty feet away, changing her initial description of the rapist to include the mustache. Biological evidence that should have excluded Boquete was misrepresented at trial, and he was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison.

With the help of the Innocence Project, Boquete obtained DNA testing on semen stains on the victim’s clothing in late 2005. The results excluded him, and he was set free in 2006.

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