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His charge was overturned after an appeal.

A theatre manager in Los Angeles who showed the film was convicted of obscenity; the charge was overturned on appeal.

The DNA did not match Mr. Dotson's, and a year later, the rape charge was overturned, making him one of the first people in the country exonerated as a result of DNA evidence.

Rick Kenney, a spokesman for the Executive Office of Immigration Review, a sister agency to the immigration service, said that even if the kidnapping charge was overturned, the deportation order still included an earlier charge that Rabbi Helbrans entered the country illegally on Sept. 14, 1990.

In 1957 he was indicted for contempt of Congress, and although his 1961 conviction on that charge was overturned, he was prepared to go to jail for what he believed in.

Mr. Munaf's conviction on kidnapping charges was overturned, but he may face further charges.

Although his conviction and death sentence on kidnapping charges was overturned several weeks ago by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, he may face further charges.

A fourth former banker for Merrill Lynch was released from prison yesterday, after his conviction on Enron-related fraud charges was overturned last week.

Another officer, Rafael Lora, was indicted in December 2007 for an off-duty shooting in the Bronx that killed the driver of a minivan; his conviction at trial on manslaughter charges was overturned by an appeals court.

(AP) PERU: FINDING IN BERENSON CASE A Peruvian judge found that a U.S. citizen, Lori Berenson, whose life sentence on terrorism charges was overturned last year, was a collaborator rather than a senior figure in the leftist Tupac Amaru guerrilla group.

Nonetheless, a spokesman for Arnoldo Alemán, a former president whose 20-year sentence on corruption charges was overturned last year, recently claimed that the United States was backing his new bid for office, while Mr. Gadea said an invitation to a recent dinner with embassy officials was an American stamp of approval on his campaign.