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Police shot him and accused him of rape. After 19 years in jail, he's been exonerated.


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Imagine losing 19 years of your life to imprisonment when you not only didn t commit the crime of which you are accused, but actively tried to help the victim of it.
Early in the morning on November 27, 2001, Termaine Joseph Hicks heard a woman s screaming from an alley behind a hospital in Philadelphia. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he entered the alley and found a woman who had been pistol-whipped and raped. He reached into his pocket to call 911, and the next thing he knew he d been shot three times by the police. ....

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Black man released after 19 years in jail amid series of exonerations in Philadelphia


By Justine Coleman - 12/17/20 11:34 AM EST
 
A Black man in Philadelphia was exonerated on Wednesday and released after 19 years in prison for a rape that a new division in the prosecutor s office ultimately determined he did not commit. 
The Philadelphia District Attorney s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) agreed with Termaine Joseph Hicks, 45, and his lawyers that the case against him was contradicted by forensic evidence and based on false statements, according to court documents submitted Tuesday.
Hicks, who goes by Jermaine Weeks in court documents, was responding to a woman screaming in an alley when police arrived and shot him three times in 2001. Hicks and his lawyers had asserted that the actual rapist fled the scene before Hicks arrived. Hicks was convicted and sentenced to 12 1/2 to 25 years in prison.  ....

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Philadelphia police shot a man and accused him of rape. After 19 years in prison, he's been found innocent.


Philadelphia police shot a man and accused him of rape. After 19 years in prison, he’s been found innocent.
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Philadelphia police claimed that Termaine Hicks was raping a woman and reached for a gun when he was shot in 2001, but a judge found this week that he was innocent. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
For 19 years, Termaine Joseph Hicks maintained his innocence.
In 2001, a police officer shot the 26-year-old Popeyes manager, later telling a court that Hicks reached for a gun after the officer found him raping a woman in a Philadelphia alleyway. A jury later convicted Hicks of rape, and a judge sentenced him to up to 25 years in prison. ....

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