James Calvin Tillman
- Year
- 2006
- Where
- Connecticut
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
James Calvin Tillman (born 1961) is a man who was wrongfully convicted of rape, and served 18.5 years in prison before being exonerated by DNA testing on July 11, 2006. Tillman, of East Hartford Connecticut, was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, sexual assault in the first degree, robbery and assault in the third degree in 1989, and freed in 2007.
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