{"id":10926,"date":"2011-10-27T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10926"},"modified":"2011-10-27T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:52:46","slug":"man-convicted-of-rape-exonerated-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10926","title":{"rendered":"Man Convicted Of Rape Exonerated After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of raping a woman in 1981 was cleared by DNA testing last month and freed from a Louisiana prison last week after spending the last 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>DNA testing revealed that <strong>Henry James Jr.<\/strong> was not the man who broke into his neighbor&#8217;s home and sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you lose hope, you lose everything,&#8221; said the now 50-year-old <strong>James<\/strong> said. &#8220;I kept praying and telling myself, &#8216;It&#8217;s going to be alright. God is going to make a way for you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After prosecutors dismissed<strong> James&#8217;<\/strong> indictment Thursday afternoon, 24th Judicial District<strong> Judge Henry Sullivan<\/strong> signed an order vacating <strong>James&#8217;<\/strong> conviction and authorizing his release from prison. <strong>James<\/strong> was set free last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a feeling of a miracle,&#8221; said <strong>James<\/strong>. &#8220;I was shocked. I finally found justice after 30 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of raping a woman in 1981 was cleared by DNA testing last month and freed from a Louisiana prison last week after spending the last 30 years in prison. DNA testing revealed that Henry James Jr. was not the man who broke into his neighbor&#8217;s home and sexually assaulted a woman at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}