Nearly 40 years after the double murder of a Southeast Georgia wife and husband, officials announced the arrest of a 61-year-old man in connection with the couple’s shooting death.

Georgia Innocence Project worked on getting Dennis Perry out of prison for more than a decadePublished: July 26, 2020, 6:21 pmPerry at home with family after being released on his own recognizance

The Georgia Innocence Project, an independent organization, fought on Perry’s behalf to get the conviction overturned and for him to be released. Perry’s family says his late mother wrote to the Georgia Innocence Project in the early 2000s, asking the organization to represent her son in what she said was a wrongful conviction. For more than a decade, the Georgia Innocence Project has worked on getting Perry out of prison. I just want to go home now.”Attorneys from the law firm King & Spalding and the Georgia Innocence Project were in Perry’s corner. The Georgia Innocence Project has been working with and for Perry since 2004.

A Georgia man who served 17 years of a 20-year sentence has been exonerated from his rape conviction and released from prison, after a judge agreed that new analysis of DNA evidence clears him. The key, supporters say, was new analysis of the very DNA evidence that was used to convict him. An analyst then testified that the small amount of unaccounted-for DNA had similarities to Robinson's DNA. The new analysis determined a random African-American's DNA is 1,800 times more likely than Robinson's DNA to explain the evidence mixture, the nonprofit said. "The factors that led to Kerry Robinson's conviction -- flawed forensics and false testimony from an incentivized cooperator -- are present in so many wrongful conviction cases.