James Curtis Giles was exonerated three years ago this week after serving more than a decade in prison for a Dallas rape he did not commit.

Giles was convicted in 1983 of a crime that authorities would later learn was committed by another man with the same name. He spent 10 years in prison, plus 14 years on parole as a registered sex offender, before he was finally cleared, thanks to DNA testing obtained by the Innocence Project.

In 1982, three armed men broke into the house of a Dallas couple. One of the men robbed the husband while the other two raped the wife, who was five months pregnant at the time. One of the perpetrators was identified soon after the attack. A month after the crime, an informant called in a tip linking James Giles to the crime. Although he did not match the victim’s description, Giles was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. While in prison, Giles met the initial informant, who said that he had reported a different James Giles. Despite this information, it still took over a decade before DNA testing exonerated Giles, while implicating the other James Giles, who had since passed away.

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