‘I didn’t want to take no deal’: Bronx man’s rape conviction vacated after 35 years

He has been out of prison for nearly a decade, but only now — after a Manhattan judge vacated his rape conviction — does Rafael Ruiz consider himself free.

For 25 years, Ruiz endured the horrors of prison, refusing every offered plea deal for a crime he did not commit. For 10 more years, he withstood...

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