CLYDE CHARLES On March 12, 1981, the victim was walking on a road looking for help after her car blew out. A black man, Charles, walked up to her and threatened her, grabbed her by the neck, and dragged her to the side of some buildings. He pulled her hair, punched her in the face, choked her, and bit her. He then raped her. He repeatedly choked her and hit her head with a pipe. After, the victim ran away and was picked up by Deputy Domangue in a police car. Domangue said he had seen Charles an hour earlier and that later Charles was hitchhiking. The victim later identified Charles as the rapist when she was at Terrebonne General Hospital. The defense claimed that the victim was given the description of Charles before her identification. But, Clyde Charles was convicted of aggravated rape on June 22, 1982, and was sentenced to life in prison. The prosecution's evidence said a hair analyst discovered two hairs on Charles's shirt and testified that they were microscopically "similar" but not identical to hair from the victim's head. Domangue's testified that Charles was wearing a dark jogging jacket with white stripes when he first saw him (the victim testified that the rapist wore a dark jogging suit with stripes) and that Charles was wearing a red cap and blue jacket tied around his neck when he found him hitchhiking. The police found a red baseball hat and blue jean jacket near the scene and Charles had admitted that he had been wearing a blue jacket. After the case had been appealed, the prosecution also introduced a sperm test. After they performed the sperm tests, they found Charles to be innocent. Charles was released on December 17, 1999. Charles had been locked up for nineteen years when he was innocent. Charles was found guilty before because he didn’t have a sperm test, and the evidence seemed against him, and he was found innocent later because the sperm test showed that he wasn’t the rapist.