MyPhillyLawyer.com<\/em> blog entry on the case from Dec. 18, 2009).\u00a0 Mr. Bain is the 248th person who has been exonerated of crimes due to DNA testing in our nation, according to The Innocence Project.<\/p>\nOne of Mr. Bain’s attorneys with The Innocence Project of Florida, Melissa Montle, said that\u00a0 it took so long for his eventual innocence to be determined because for years his appeals were denied on procedural grounds.\u00a0 The first problem was that he only had two years after his guilty verdict to file an appeal based on DNA testing — but such testing didn’t even exist at that time, she said.\u00a0 Later, another court rejected his request after it interpreted that two-year window as being after the development of such DNA testing,\u00a0 Montle said, which was difficult to determine.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bain’s case was also tainted, she said, by a poorly conducted police identification procedure set up for the young and traumatized victim at that time.\u00a0 The police allegedly asked the boy to describe his attacker and when he did, the boy’s uncle, who was present for the procedure, said “that sounds like Jimmy Bain,” Montle said. “The procedure that the police used was very suggestive. The photo line-up wasn’t put together well.\u00a0 The police\u00a0 didn\u2019t ask the victim to select the photo of the man who had raped him,” Montle said. “They told [the victim] to pick out the photo of Jimmy Bain.”<\/p>\n
“Studies have shown that once a victim decides who their attacker is, that\u2019s who it becomes for them,” Montle said.\u00a0 “It was an honest mistake and no one is blaming this poor kid who went through this horrible experience.”<\/p>\n
Also leading to the erroneous conviction, she said, was evidence presented by an FBI crime lab scientist who testified in court against Mr. Bain.\u00a0 The FBI expert testified that a sample of semen from the attacker which was found on the boy’s underwear was from a man with Type B blood. Mr. Bain’s blood is Type AB, but the FBI expert explained that discrepancy away by saying it could “be a weak A and the B part just jumped out,” Montle said.\u00a0 The FBI expert “fudged it a bit,” she said. But for the jury, it was enough. “You have to think that someone from the FBI testifying had great weight with the jury,” she said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bain is once again a free man after the justice system failed him 35 years ago.\u00a0 Now he will work to put his life back together after more than three decades in prison for a crime that was committed by someone else.<\/p>\n
We look forward to hearing his words, to hearing his story, straight from the man who lived through such a long and difficult nightmare.<\/p>\n
Is he bitter? Is he happy to be free? Did he ever give up on his dream of being released from prison? Did he ever give up hope? And through it all, what kept him alive each day and able to cope with the inequities he endured?<\/p>\n
Be sure to listen in this Sunday morning at 7 a.m. EDT at WRNB-FM 107.9 and call in with your questions and comments for Mr. Bain.<\/p>\n
We are honored to sponsor his visit and we thank him for sharing his story with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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