Failures in rape case brings down head of British agency that probes miscarriages of justice
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Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The head of a British judicial body that is supposed to help people who have been wrongly convicted resigned over a case of an innocent man who spent 17 years of a life sentence in prison for a violent rape committed by someone else. Criminal Cases Review Commission Chair Helen Pitcher quit Tuesday, 18 months after Andrew Malkinson walked free from the Court of Appeal after justices accepted DNA evidence implicating another man in the 2003 rape of a 33-year-old woman who was
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