Terance Calhoun, 35, was exonerated Wednesday after a recent audit of untested sexual assault kits revealed that his DNA had been tested at the time of his conviction — and had proved his innocence.
Terance Calhoun was arrested there Nov. 3, 2006, on the suspicion of attempted rape in the first case and rape in the second, among other things.
“It is unknown where the breakdown was — whether it was that police never handed it over to the prosecutor or the prosecutor never handed it over to the defense or whether there was any ill intent or not. We just don’t know,” Calhoun’s attorney, Michael Mittlestat, said Thursday in a phone interview with The Washington Post.
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