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DNA wins freedom for man after 26 years

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  • NEW: Judge has recommended overturning Charles Chatman's rape conviction
  • Jurors convicted Chatman in 1981 of raping his neighbor
  • Chatman, sentenced to life, insisted he was innocent for 26 years
  • Chatman is the longest-serving inmate in Texas to be freed by DNA evidence
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