A 40-year-old California rape kit returns shocking result |
Aerial view of of Simi Valley and Rocky Peak near Los Angeles in Ventura County, California.
A California man who was sentenced to six years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been exonerated after 40 years.
On Nov. 8, 1982, a young woman was riding her bicycle in Simi Valley when she was cornered by a man and sexually assaulted. A few months later, the 19-year-old was in a pizza parlor when she thought she recognized her assailant. She wrote down the man’s license plate number and informed Simi Valley police. The owner of the vehicle, Richard Joseph Luna, then 26, was arrested on suspicion of rape.
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Luna vehemently maintained his innocence, and there was no physical evidence that linked him to the crime. But a jury nonetheless found him guilty of rape by force, and Luna was sentenced in........