Leonard Mack, who served seven and half years in prison for the crime, said, 'I never lost hope that one day that I would be proven innocent.'
A New York man was officially exonerated on Tuesday 47 years after he was found guilty of rape in 1976 — the longest-standing wrongful conviction to be overturned based on new DNA evidence in the Innocent Project database, the A DNA hit"conclusively excluded" Leonard Mack, 72, as the perpetrator, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah.
Mack, who served seven and half years in prison for the crime, said,"I never lost hope that one day that I would be proven innocent."
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