Dallas
A Dallas man who spent 10 years in prison for rape was the victim of mistaken identity, a Texas prosecutor said this week, and a judge ordered his release. James Curtis Giles, 53, was convicted of participating in a gang rape in 1982. Prosecutors now say police mistook Giles for another man, James Earl Giles, who died in prison in 2000 while serving time for robbery and assault. Lawyers for the Innocence Project, which works to free wrongly convicted prisoners, presented DNA evidence linking the other man to the rape. Giles is the 27th Texan since 2001 whose conviction has been overturned by DNA evidence.
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