DALLAS, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A Dallas County inmate who served 30 years for a crime he didn't commit will be the 21st Texan officially cleared through DNA evidence, officials say.
Cornelius Dupree Jr. is expected to be formally exonerated Tuesday of a 1979 aggravated robbery and rape, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
Dupree, 51, was paroled last summer after serving 30 years of a 75-year prison sentence for a crime involving two men who abducted a man and woman in Dallas, said Paul Cates of The Innocence Project in New York.
After forcing the man out of the car, the kidnappers sexually assaulted the woman and pushed her out of the vehicle, the News said.
The female victim wrongly identified Dupree in a photo array and the male victim did not pick Dupree out of a photo selection, but in court both identified him as one of the assailants.
Another man, Anthony Massingill, was also exonerated in the same case, said Nina Morrison, an attorney with The Innocence Project.
The actual assailants have not been identified, the News said.
