A New Jersey man who faced indefinite civil commitment on a charge stemming from a 1996 rape walked free on March 14, exonerated by DNA evidence that had been thought lost.
Charged with aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping, Rodney Roberts pleaded guilty to kidnapping because he claimed his public defender told him the 17-year-old victim had picked him out of a photo array and knew him from the neighborhood.
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