Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, said Hardin and Clark were out on bail before their 1995 trial and never missed a hearing. It was Hardin's blood, matching his testimony at trial that he cut himself on the broken glass and used the cloth to wipe his hands. The DNA evidence showed the blood was not from an animal. The prosecutors' office for years fought the release of the DNA evidence and Williams has pointed to Hardin's confession before a parole board as evidence of his guilt. Meade Circuit Judge Bruce T. Butler overturned their decades-old convictions last month, finding they were "based on suppositions that we now know to be fundamentally false."

Source: Fox News August 04, 2016 18:00 UTC