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IA - Davenport mom fighting to free son convicted of rape

Original Article 12/20/2010 DAVENPORT - A Davenport mother who says her son was wrongly convicted of rape says she will never stop fighting to get her son released from prison after discovering key DNA evidence was withheld at his trial. [name withheld] was arrested in 2005 after a female friend said he sexually assaulted her after an all-day drunk-fest in Lowden, Iowa. "He passed out and the next thing he knows, he's being arrested", his mom, [name withheld] said in an interview with News 8. [name withheld] testified in his own defense at his trial, but was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to a mandatory 10 years in prison. But [name withheld] family later discovered an incredible DNA bombshell left out of his defense. The lab report from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation shows that [name withheld] DNA wasn't found anywhere on the young woman...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).