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Man Claims FBI Conspiracy in Overturned Conviction

WRONGFUL CONVICTION

George Perrot spent 30 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. He says his overturned conviction was based on a forged confession and testing the FBI admits is faulty.

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After the third sexual assault of an elderly woman in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1985, police were desperate for an arrest. So they beat a 17-year-old boy, framed him for the crime,

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