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Paul Terry

State: Illinois
Incident Date: 01/15/76
 Age at Arrest: 17
 Conviction Date: 1977
 Age when Exonerated: 43
 Exonerated Date: 2003
 Time Served: 26 years
 Conviction: Murder
 False Confession: False
 Implicated by Another Youth: True
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Paul Terry was seventeen when he was accused of the rape and murder of a nine-year old girl. Terry was implicated by sixteen-year-old Keith Jones, who later explained that he did so during a coercive and pressure-filled police interrogation. Terry was released in 2003 after twenty-six years in prison when DNA testing excluded him as well as his codefendant Michael Evans as the perpetrators.



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