DETROIT – A Detroit man convicted of sexual assault 20 years after the crime has been exonerated. A judge on Friday granted a new trial to James Clay, but the Wayne County prosecutor says the case is closed.
Clay says it's an "amazing feeling." In 2017, CIay was convicted of raping a teenager back in 1997 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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He was charged after his DNA was compared to evidence that had languished in storage. But it turns out that Clay had an intimate relationship with her decades ago.