State’s highest court hears DNA case

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A prisoner whose attorneys say DNA evidence proves him innocent has taken his fight for freedom before the state’s highest court.

James Thompson, 49, still sits behind bars at a Hagerstown prison — even after his co-defendant, James Owens, 48, won his release in the 1987 murder of a young woman based on the same DNA evidence.

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