Nearly 30 years ago, at 22, Mr. Harrell was arrested on suspicion of raping a teenage girl and later served four years in a New Jersey prison. But when he was released on parole, what amounted to his second sentence started: For the next two decades, he had to live with the restrictions of the state’s sex-offender statute, known as Megan’s Law.

On Wednesday, Mr. Harrell, now 50, is to be formally cleared of the rape charge in State Superior Court in Freehold, N.J., officially foreclosing his legal tribulations. But he said that even an exoneration, as welcome as it is, would not entirely end his ordeal.

“It’s never going to leave me,” he said in an interview this week. “I’m scarred for life, no matter what.”

Read the article by Alan Feuer in the New York Times.

Posted by rbchatelle on Thursday, August 18th, 2016 @ 9:59PM
Categories: Sex Offender Issues

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