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December 14, 2007
Andrew Bergh:Conviction reversed, but he'd already served time
By ANDREW BERGH
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Convicted rapists don't usually deserve any sympathy.
But thanks to DNA testing performed after his conviction, Ted Louis Bradford might be one of the few exceptions. Although the results didn't completely exonerate him, a Washington appeals court recently ruled that if the newly discovered DNA evidence was “fully accepted” by a jury, the outcome of Bradford's trial probably would've been different.
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