A man who spent nearly 50 years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of raping a teenage girl at gunpoint in Greenburgh, New York, has finally been exonerated through DNA testing.
Leonard Mack, now 72 years old, had maintained his innocence since the beginning, and DNA evidence confirmed that he was not the assailant in the case.
Mack was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to prison in 1976 based on the victim's identification, despite inconsistencies in the evidence and alibi witnesses.
The case took an extraordinary length of time to be reversed, making it one of the longest wrongful convictions to be overturned through new DNA testing, according to The Innocence Project.
After enduring years of hardship, including the loss of job opportunities due to his conviction, Mack can finally embrace his freedom.
The District Attorney's Office also identified the real perpetrator, who confessed to the 1975 rape but couldn't be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations.
Leonard Mack's exoneration serves as a powerful example of how tunnel vision and racial bias can lead to wrongful convictions, highlighting the importance of reviewing cases involving serological evidence to prevent future miscarriages of justice.
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