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Va. Clears Innocent Man of Rapes After 27 Years

Thomas Haynesworth never stopped fighting

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 7, 2011 1:03 PM CST

(Newser) – For 27 years, Thomas Haynesworth sat in prison, learning auto mechanics, welding, and masonry … and fighting to clear his name. That fight paid off yesterday, when a Virginia appeals court declared him innocent, acknowledging that he did not commit the three rapes of which...   Read full story »

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