“Today has been a long time coming. I lost seven-and-a-half years of my life in prison for a crime I did not commit and I have lived with this injustice hanging over my head for almost 50 years.…
A man wrongly convicted of raping a Westchester County teenage girl nearly five decades ago was finally exonerated Tuesday in an emotional hearing where he shared a hug with the presiding judge.
But advanced DNA testing proved Mack was not behind the attacks, and instead pointed to a sex offender who recently confessed to the disturbing crimes, the Westchester District Attorney’s Office said. Despite presenting alibi witnesses at trial, he was found guilty by a jury of first-degree rape and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.Mack, who is now married, tried behind bars to challenge his conviction multiple times in the 1980s, but the effort was opposed by the Westchester DA’s office and rejected by the courts.
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