After 18 Years in Prison, DNA Test May Free Man
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A man convicted of a 1981 murder will be released after DNA testing showed that hair found at the crime scene and used as evidence against him was not his.
Prosecutors agreed that Albert Wesley Brown should be released Oct. 16. They then will decide within six months whether to retry him.
Brown, 39, has spent 18 years in prison on a life sentence for the murder of Earl Taylor, a retired firefighter who was bound, gagged and drowned in a lake.
Prosecutors contended Brown killed Taylor after being interrupted during a burglary.
Brown said he was in Broken Arrow and Tulsa at the time of the crime, and friends and family testified to his alibi.
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