US Black man cleared of rape charge almost 50 years later
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 6, 2023
A US man who served seven and a half years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been cleared nearly five decades later thanks to new DNA evidence, authorities said.
Leonard Mack, now 72, was arrested in 1975, in Greenburgh, New York state, after the rape of a teenage girl who had been walking home from school with another girl.
Police announced a search for a Black suspect in the mostly white neighbourhood and shortly after picked up Mack, who is African American.
After a campaign by the Innocence Project . . .
