This morning, the Richmond-Times Dispatch broke the news that the Old Case Testing Project has proven the innocence of another man in Virginia.  Without MAIP’s work to ensure that individuals whose DNA is being tested as part of this project were notified, Mr. Barbour would not have known about the DNA results that exonerated him.  While we wish that Virginia in 2007 had embraced MAIP’s plan for even more openness and transparency, so Mr. Barbour could have proven his innocence when prosecutors knew about these results in 2010, we are happy that our friends at the UVA Innocence Project now will be able to secure his full exoneration.

To learn more about Mr. Barbour’s story, please see this morning’s stories at the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Case raises questions of effort

New DNA test could exonerate man convicted of 1978 rape