A Georgia man has been released from prison after spending more than a third of his life incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit.
Kerry Robinson, 44, walked out of a South Georgia prison Wednesday after 17 years behind bars and hugged his relatives, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
He was convicted of breaking into a woman’s home in 1993 and sexually assaulting her, according to his attorneys at the Atlanta-based Georgia Innocence Project. Robinson filed a motion for a new trial in September 2019 and was exonerated by Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brad Shealy. DNA evidence retested using modern technology proved the original state Bureau of Investigation analysis that was presented at trial was misleading.
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