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16 Sep 2010, 2:41 pm
Phillip Bivens and Bobby Ray Dixon were cleared this morning after DNA evidence showed that they didn't commit a 1979 rape and murder. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 5:00 am by zshapiro
A third innocent person, Larry Ruffin died in prison. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 3:30 pm
A hearing is scheduled in Hattiesburg, Mississippi tomorrow to decide whether three rape and murder convictions from 1979 will be thrown out based on DNA proof of innocence.Larry Ruffin, Bobby Ray Dixon and Phillip Bivens were convicted of raping and murdering a woman on May 4, 1979 in Hattiesburg and received life sentences. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 2:24 pm
Less than two months after being cleared of a rape he did not commit, Bobby Ray Dixon has died. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 11:59 am by Steve Hall
But DNA testing posthumously cleared Ruffin of the charges along with Bobby Ray Dixon and Phillip Bivens.Dixon serve 32 years in prison for the crime. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 8:06 am by Steven Drizin
The New Orleans Innocence Project filed motions to clear and exonerate three men -- Phillip Bivens, Bobby Ray Dixon and Larry Ruffin -- who had falsely confessed to a brutal rape and murder in 1979. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 7:41 pm by cdw
Phillip Bivens and Bobby Ray Dixon, both serving life were exonerated by a judge on Thursday morning, with a third man, Larry Ruffin, likely to be exonerated in the coming days; they were convicted of a murder they did not commit almost a third of a century ago. [read post]
2 Nov 2018, 3:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  The portrait of Ruffin is massive and is centered behind the bench. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 3:36 am by SHG
Ruffin died in prison eight years ago. [read post]