DNA Helps Free Inmate After 27 Years
"On each of the nearly 10,000 days he spent in jail, James Woodard held out hope that someone would believe he was innocent. Some people finally did believe him, but it was 27 years later and they were from an unlikely place: the office of the Dallas County District Attorney, the same entity that railroaded him for the 1980 murder of his girlfriend.
Woodard was freed this past Tuesday and is the longest-serving wrongfully convicted inmate to be released with the help of DNA in U.S. history."
TOM ANDERSON and JENNY DUBIN for CBS News.