After nearly 26 years in prison, Johnnie Earl Lindsey expects to walk out of a Dallas courtroom this morning a free man.

DNA test results proved that Mr. Lindsey was not the man who raped a woman who had been riding her bike near White Rock Lake in 1981.

He is scheduled to appear before a judge at 10 a.m. for a hearing that could lead to his release.

One of the first things Mr. Lindsey, 56, plans to do is see his invalid mother, who is living in nursing home, said his attorney, Michelle Moore, who is an assistant Dallas County public defender and a board member for the Innocence Project, a legal group that seeks to get wrongful convictions overturned.

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