NORMAN, Okla., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma man is free after serving 20 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.
Calvin Lee Scott, 48, was released Wednesday after DNA tests proved he was not responsible for the attack on an Ada woman in August 1982, the Daily Oklahoman reported.
Scott broke down in tears and couldn't talk to reporters at first but he later said his release makes him feel "born again."
Scott was the 10th Oklahoma inmate exonerated under a program that examines old cases in which forensic evidence was never tested for DNA. The Oklahoma Indigent Defense System and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation conduct the reviews at the request of inmates.
Scott, who is black, thinks an informant with racial motivations gave his name to police who initially investigated the rape. The victim could not identify her attacker and hair evidence was used to convict Scott.
Other evidence collected at the crime scene has now been matched to the DNA profile of another Oklahoma inmate already serving time in a rape case but the statute of limitations has now expired in the 1982 rape case.
