The Case Of Kirk Bloodsworth

Being convicted is never the best thing in the world, but if you're innocent, you are perfectly fine, there’s no way anyone would accuse you of something, right? Well that isn’t the case here, some innocents are accused of crimes they had no part of, and later have been ‘proved’ guilty in court, but where not guilty of the crime. They are usually acquitted later on, like Kirk Bloodsworth. He was accused of the rape, and murder of a 9-year old girl, and later his innocence was proved by a DNA test. In Maryland county, Baltimore, Mr. Bloodsworth was arrested after multiple witnesses said that they saw him with the victim in 1984. He was convicted of the sexual assault, and murder of Dawn Hamilton in 1985. There was a composite drawing of the

Mr. Bloodsworth took this as his chance of freedom. After a long amount of debating over the DNA test, the prosecution finally agreed to it on the year 1992. The tests, performed by Edward T. Blake, of Forensic Science Associates, DNA on the victim's shorts, panties, and a stick. The test on the panties excluded Mr. Bloodsworth DNA, the FBI had the same results on their DNA test. Kirk was freed from prison on June 28, 1993. He was the first prisoner on death row to be freed from DNA testing in the United States of America. After 9 years, during the spring in 1993, they discovered the one who actually killed Dawn Hamilton. Ruffner actually arrived in prison a month after Mr. Bloodsworth did. At the time Kirk did not know about Ruffner or of what he did, and Ruffner intended to keep it that way. It was ironic because Kirk helped Ruffner multiple times, since he was know as the Prison’s Librarian. He was also the true criminal that committed the crime, of course the defendants of Kirk didn't know this at the time they were defending him. Otherwise if they did know they would have had Kirk proved innocent much sooner than it actually happened. In 1993 Ruffer was proven guilty and the case was finally