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Originally posted by Chunk View PostSome scatty hippo i hooked up with a couple of years ago thinks i'm the father of her son.
This is all i need.
An Ohio man tasted freedom for the first time in nearly 30 years Tuesday after DNA evidence showed he did not **** an 11-year-old girl and a judge vacated his conviction.
"It finally happened, I've been waiting," Raymond Towler, 52, said as he hugged sobbing family members in the courtroom.
He walked from the courthouse, arms around his family members, amid the smell of freshly cut grass, blooming trees and a brisk wind off Lake Erie. Asked how he would adjust, Towler responded: "Just take a deep breath and just enjoy life right now."
He deflected a question about demanding an apology and said he understood justice can take time.
"I think it was just a process, you know, the DNA," he said. "It just took a couple of years to get to it. We finally got to it and the job was done."
In a brief, emotionally charged session, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Eileen Gallagher recapped the case, discussed the recently processed DNA evidence and threw out his conviction. She also told him that he can sue over his ordeal.
Towler smiled lightly, nodded and kept his intertwined fingers on his lap.
"You're free," the judge said, leaving the bench to shake Towler's hand at the defense table. The judge choked back tears as she offered Towler a traditional Irish blessing.
Towler had been serving a life sentence for the **** of a girl in a Cleveland park in 1981. Prosecutors received the test results Monday and immediately asked the court to free him.
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