Exonerated 2003
Paul D. Kordonowy
- Year
- 2003
- Where
- Montana
- Source
- Innocence Project
- Evidence
- 1
What the record says
In May 2003, Paul D. Kordonowy was exonerated of a 1987 rape conviction in Sidney, Montana, after DNA testing proved his innocence.
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