After serving 25 years in prison, man is proved innocent and has been released after new DNA technology proved he did not commit a rape in 1989.
Darryl Pinkins, 63, was jailed in May 1991 after a woman claimed he was the man who dragged her into a car in Hammond, Indiana, and violated her for hours.
He has always maintained he was innocent, but all the evidence pointed against him.
But now, tests done by the Indiana Innocence Project using technology invented in the last few of years found there is no evidence from the alleged attack that points to Pinkins.
After a quarter-century in jail, Pinkins has lost teeth, he is now diabetic, and he now has thyroid disease.
However, he beamed on Monday morning as he walked out of Lake County correctional facility into the sunshine to be reunited with his family.
Among the crowd stood his 24-year-old son, who was born after Pinkins was jailed.
'It feels like this day was - was meant to be. And I know it was,' Pinkins told reporters waiting outside for him in a news conference recorded by ABC7.
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| He is pictured with his son, 24, (right) was was born after Pinkins was jailed |
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