TEACH PROSECUTORS NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Jury awards $2.3M to man falsely held as ‘Charles Village rapist.’ “A federal jury has awarded $2.3 million to a Baltimore man who was held for 15 months on charges he raped a Charles Village woman until investigators acknowledged DNA evidence they had most of the time he was in custody did not link him to the crime. . . . Humbert consistently maintained his innocence while in pretrial solitary confinement, according to the lawsuit. No physical evidence from the crime scene “even hinted” that Humbert might be a suspect, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges he should have been released after a month after two lab reports excluded Humbert as a possible suspect based on DNA evidence. But Humbert was not exonerated until August 2009, 14 months after investigators first obtained the DNA evidence, according to the complaint.”