GOOD NEWS — VINDICATION. Bad news — 26 years behind bars for an innocent man:

Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to acknowledge he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated yesterday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he indeed wasn’t. The release of Mr. Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County’s nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.

I think he ought to get a millon bucks per year served. At a minimum.