{"id":941,"date":"2001-05-08T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2001-05-08T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/05\/08\/man-freed-years-after-conviction\/"},"modified":"2001-05-08T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2001-05-08T20:40:30","slug":"man-freed-years-after-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/05\/08\/man-freed-years-after-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Freed Years After Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/ap\/20010508\/us\/convict_cleared_4.html\">Man Freed Years After Conviction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Had he admitted to raping a woman in 1985, he could have left prison on parole. Had he just agreed to enter a sex-offender treatment program, he might have kept some personal privileges.<\/p>\n<p>But Pierce would not, insisting for 15 years that he was not a rapist. &#8220;I stood my ground for all these years, and I wasn&#8217;t about to bow down now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Pierce, 39, walked out of prison after prosecutors confirmed that he had been wrongfully convicted of rape, based partly on testimony from a police chemist now under investigation for incorrectly identifying evidence&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Freed Years After Conviction &#8220;&#8230;Had he admitted to raping a woman in 1985, he could have left prison on parole. Had he just agreed to enter a sex-offender treatment program, he might have kept some personal privileges. But Pierce would not, insisting for 15 years that he was not a rapist. &#8220;I stood my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}