re: Confirmed: Vanderbilt Football Players Under Investigation for Rape (Suspended)

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So one story makes you unilaterally say you won't believe a woman that says she was sexually assaulted without "overwhelming evidence"?

What is "overwhelming evidence"?

I realize that there are women who make false rape accusations, but the number of women who get raped and don't report it > the number of women who make false rape accusations.

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Lyons had been sent to prison after being found guilty of raping a female neighbor in west suburban Woodridge. But DNA evidence later proved he had been falsely convicted.

"Money can't compensate for lost time," said Lyons, now 54 and living in Indiana. "I was planning to finish up college and return to the Navy. That never happened. I had no career, and my life was taken from me."

He also said he could not find work upon his release because he had to register as a sex offender. His personal relationships suffered. He never married or had children.

Lyons was 29 years old in 1987 — a Navy reservist with no criminal record — when a neighbor in the Maple Tree Apartment complex in Woodridge accused him of rape.

He was found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison. He was paroled in three years.

In the letter, Rush said the crime and the subsequent investigation took place before DNA testing was widely available to investigators and added that the case was based on eyewitness identification.

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Houston man who successfully sued the city of Houston in 2009 after he spent 17 years in prison wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and rape will receive $3.1 million, Mayor Annise Parker announced Friday.

Since being released, he has had trouble finding a job because of another felony conviction and is unable to work steadily because of back problems. He said last year he picks up cans and pays his rent by helping his landlord do handyman work.

Despite being freed in 2004, Rodriguez's requests for exoneration or a pardon were turned away until last year when Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos declared him "actually innocent."

Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1987 after he was identified by the victim as one of two men who kidnapped and raped her at a Denver Harbor-area house. He was arrested after the HPD Crime Lab did serological testing and hair comparisons that were later shown to be flawed.

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