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Exonerated 2017

William Barnhouse

Year
1992
Where
Indiana
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
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What the record says

In 2017, William Barnhouse, who was wrongly convicted of sexual assault, became the 350th person exonerated through DNA testing.

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