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A Broward judge has ordered the city of Miramar to pay $3.6 million to Anthony Caravella, who spent nearly 26 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit before he was released in 2010. Broward Circuit Judge Carlos Rodriguez said the city of Miramar is on the hook for nearly half of the $7 million judgment Caravella won in a federal case against the officers who allegedly coerced ...

Retesting shows DNA found in Pamela Albertson’s vagina came from Robert Earl Hayes, who was convicted but then acquitted of her 1990 strangulation and rape.

A DNA retest shows a man acquitted at retrial after his death sentence for a woman's rape and murder was almost certainly the actual killer.

A man acquitted at retrial after his conviction and death sentence for raping and murdering a woman was overturned was almost certainly the actual killer according to new DNA tests, a Florida prosecutor announced Wednesday.

Retesting shows DNA found in Pamela Albertson’s vagina came from Robert Earl Hayes, who was convicted but then acquitted of her 1990 strangulation and rape.

DNA evidence has increasingly been used to help free persons wrongly convicted of crimes they didn't commit. In a three-decade-old case out of Florida, however, authorities...

Robert Earl Hayes' case was featured in a 2002 play, "The Exonerated," which was made into a Court TV movie.

A Florida prosecutor says new DNA testing shows that a man acquitted at retrial of murdering a woman more than 30 years ago almost certainly committed the crime

Robert Earl Hayes was found not guilty of a murder that occurred more than 30 years ago. Now a prosecutor in Florida says a recent DNA test proves he is guilty.

A man acquitted at retrial after his conviction and death sentence for raping and murdering a woman was overturned was almost certainly the actual killer according to new DNA tests, a Florida prosecutor announced Wednesday.