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DNA tests free man after 30 years
By Associated Press
Published: 12/12/2007

GEORGIA - A Manchester man has been freed after a DNA test proved he did not commit a rape that sent him to prison nearly three decades ago. John Jerome White, 48, was released from Macon State Prison on Monday evening after the test results came back late last week. He was picked up by his mother and sister.

"I'm just thankful that this is behind me," White said at a news conference Tuesday morning with the Atlanta-based Georgia Innocence Project, which had persuaded authorities to run a DNA test on the evidence from the 1979 rape. Read more.

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