DNA evidence clears US man of rape charge 47 years later

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 06, 2023 8:13 am

NEW YORK: A US man who served seven and a half years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been cleared nearly five decades later thanks to new DNA evidence, authorities said Tuesday.

Leonard Mack, now 72, was arrested in 1975, in Greenburgh, New York state, after the rape of a teenage girl, who had been walking home from school with another girl.

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