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Volume 352:2667-2668 June 30, 2005 Number 26 Next

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On December 21, 2004, Brandon Moon was released from prison in El Paso, Texas, after having served 16 years of a 75-year sentence for three counts of aggravated sexual assault. Moon, who was 43 years of age at the time of his release, had been convicted in 1988 on the testimony of the three victims, who had had only a fleeting or partial view of their assailant. In 2004, after undergoing DNA testing, Moon was excluded as the contributor of the DNA collected after all three rapes. As a result, Moon became the 154th person in the United States to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Rothstein is a professor of law and medicine and the director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Ky.

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