WIFE'S PERSISTENCE HELPS FREE MAN AFTER 13 YEARS IN PRISON.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. It wasn't long after Gale Webb met her future husband at a prison three years ago that she began to believe he was innocent of the 1982 rape that put him behind bars. On Friday, a judge agreed. Thomas Webb Thomas Webb is the name of:
``Hallelujah Hallelujah (hăl'əl  `yə) or Alleluia (ăl–) [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. . Praise God. Praise God,'' Webb, 36, said as
he raised his arms skyward sky·ward adv. & adj. At or toward the sky. sky  wards adv. on the steps of the Cleveland County Cleveland County is the name of several counties in the United States:
Webb embraced and kissed his wife of almost a year. ``We've gone through some really rough times,'' Gale Webb said. ``We can have some good times now.'' ``We're going to go on a honeymoon,'' Thomas Webb said. He said the trip to St. Louis and Chicago would reunite him with family members he has not seen for 17 years. ``This is the woman God gave me. This is the woman who saved me,'' Webb said. Webb and his attorney, Irven Box of Oklahoma City, credited Gale Webb for pushing authorities to use DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. genetic profiling to review the evidence that had convicted him at his 1983 trial. ``She came to me. She believes in him,'' Box said. ``There's nothing I can do to correct the 13 years of injustice he has endured in this case,'' District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said at the hearing. State District Judge Tom Lucas granted a new trial and then a dismissal of first-degree rape and other charges against Webb. |
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