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James Love
James Love's Rape Convictions Vacated -
James Love's story of being convicted of four counts of rape in Cincinnati when he was 2,000 miles away in Belize and Mexico at the time of the alleged crimes was published in Justice:Denied's Fall 2005 issue. On November 22, 2006, the Ohio Court of Appeals vacated Love's convictions and ordered a new trial. In their decision the Court stated, "Since being imprisoned, Love has worked to prove his innocence by tracking down witnesses and documentation to confirm that he was not in the United States when the alleged offenses occurred. And he has done so. The evidence of a passport application, photographs, a personally signed book, medical records, and four independent witnesses, three of whom are foreign nationals, all show that Love was not in the United States when the alleged crimes occurred." Read the Court's opinion.