Man Exonerated In Manhattan Rape Case Plans Lawsuit [View all]

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By: Dean Meminger

A man convicted of raping a Manhattan woman nearly 30 years ago was recently cleared of all charges, and now, he says that someone has to pay for his years of being labeled a violent sex offender. NY1's Dean Meminger filed the following report.

Although Johnnie O'Neal has been out of prison for nine years, it's still painful for him to think about his time being locked up.

"Some nights, I would just cry every day," he said.

In 1984, O'Neal was living in the Douglass Houses on Columbus Avenue. There had been a series of rapes in the area, and after a woman was raped at knifepoint on the roof of his building, she identified O'Neal as her attacker.

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