A New York man was fully exonerated Tuesday after being wrongfully convicted for a sexual assault that took place in 1984.
Rafael Ruiz, 60, was only 25 when he was found guilty in 1985 of sexually assaulting a woman with two others in East Harlem. He spent the next 25 years in prison – his maximum sentence, per theHe was released on parole in 2009, but he continued to maintain his innocence – this time, with the aid of the Innocence Project and the Manhattan District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Program, which unsealed the victim's rape kit.
Further, according to the Innocence Project, Ruiz did not match the description of the attacker, an acquaintance of the woman's. She also called the attacker by the nickname"Ronnie," which Ruiz never used. “I was a man who went to court and went to trial to prove his innocence, but I was treated like I was already guilty when I stepped in there,” Ruiz said in a statement from the Innocence Project.
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