*On February 17, 2012, Massachusetts became the 49th state to enact a DNA Access Law.
Exonerees
New England Exonerees have served a combined 491 years for crimes they did not commit.
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*On February 17, 2012, Massachusetts became the 49th state to enact a DNA Access Law.
*On February 17, 2012, Massachusetts became the 49th state to enact a DNA Access Law.
7 years
Marvin Mitchell was exonerated in April 1997 after spending seven years and three months in prison for a crime he did not commit. In 1990 he was convicted of abducting and raping an eleven-year-old girl while she waited for the bus. Marvin Mitchell was imprisoned despite the fact that he matched neither the victim …
4 years
James “Jimmy” Hebshie was convicted in 2006 of an arson that destroyed an office building in Taunton, MA. His conviction was based on fire science that has since been widely discredited. Detectives quickly zeroed in on Hebshie as a suspect. They determined the fire …
19 years
Bernard Baran was arrested at the age of 19 for sexually assaulting two 3-year-olds at the daycare where he worked in Massachusetts. Baran was convicted on coerced and incredible testimony from the children, and without any physical evidence. The techniques used while …
19 years
Dennis Maher was convicted in two separate trials of attacks on three women. In March 1984, he was found guilty of the rape and assault of two women in Lowell on consecutive evenings in November 1983. In April 1984, he was convicted of the …
6 years
Jeffrey Scott Hornoff was a 27-year-old detective with the Warwick, Rhode Island Police Department until he was charged, tried and convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder. In the summer of 1989, Victoria Cushman was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher and porcelain jewelry …
10 years
In May 2000, Neil Miller was exonerated after spending 10 years in prison. He was convicted of aggravated rape while armed, and of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, on December 19, 1990, in Boston. Miller’s conviction rested almost entirely on …
18 years
Kenneth Waters spent eighteen years in prison for a murder he did not commit. His conviction was vacated in 2001 with the help of his sister, Betty Anne Waters (pictured right). On May 21, 1980, the victim was found dead in her bed …
