In 2000: The hair evidence that couldn't stand up to DNA
William Gregory was wrongfully convicted in 1993 of rape, attempted rape, and burglary in Louisville, Kentucky, and spent seven years in prison before being exonerated on July 5, 2000 — the first DNA exoneration in Kentucky and the first worldwide exoneration by mitochondrial DNA testing alone.
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