The Innocence Project: A.B. Butler

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by Marjani Hutchinson32 views·Updated Jan 22, 2021
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This a presentation about a man that was wrongfully of a crime he did not commit.

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  1. Hey, guys, on time, no see.
  2. Anyways, um, I'll be presenting on a B butler.
  3. He was convicted with aggravated kidnapping on May 31st 1983
  4. and Smith Country, Texas.
  5. The victim was a young white woman, and she reported
  6. that she was abducted and rigged by a black man.
  7. She was forced to drive to a rural area where
  8. the incident had later occurred.
  9. The victim later on went to identify Butler as the
  10. perpetrator on three different occasions.
  11. Regardless of Butler's alibis, he was sucked into 99 years
  12. in prison.
  13. Take a life.
  14. Butler tried to appeal many times that the evidence from
  15. the victim and the crime scene be tested again.
  16. All of his appeals were denied, and in 1999 in
  17. 1995 there is biological evidence found in.
  18. Butler was assigned Randy Schaffer as his attorney in 1999.
  19. They had tested the DNA evidence in Cross, referenced it
  20. with butlers.
  21. The evidence did not match Butler, so he was exonerated
  22. by the former President George W.
  23. Bush on May 31st 2000, after 17 years of being
  24. in prison.
  25. Butler is currently married and works in Tyler, Texas.
  26. I looked online and I couldn't really find if the
  27. true culprit was caught so