I wasn't specific. Just trying to post quickly.
Again, I'm not saying this man's release was a result of a technicality. I'm just wondering about ALL the cases lately with prisoners released. There seems to be so many of them.
The story to which I referred: The victim was a college student living in Philadelphia. She was jogging one night when she saw two men breaking into a vehicle. She confronted them (big mistake) and was knocked down and dragged into their van. The two men confessed that, while one was driving, the other raped her in the back of the van, but he couldn't "finish". Thus he didn't leave DNA evidence, if you get my drift. Apparently, she must've been with someone else that night, and HIS DNA evidence showed up. But the man never stepped forward.
I'll try to find the story online another time. It could be that, in the years since then, there was more info in the case... But the men arrested were released.
But, again, I'm not saying that was the case in this thread's story.
You don't need DNA to convict. I still have no idea why these men were not convicted. You have not given any reason. If they confessed, why were they let out? There is something missing?
Did she lie and say she had not been with anyone else...because if she did, then yes, someone else's semem would seem to exonerate these men. If she admitted other sexual contact then it would not be exculpatory to find semen not of the accused.