| First Name | James |
| Last Name | Bain |
| Year of Conviction | 1974 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2009 |
| State of Conviction | Florida |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Rape |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Life / LWOP sentence | Life |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | Black |
| Juvenile | No |
| Type of Innocence Defense |
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| Description / Quotes from Testimony Concerning Defense | ● Defendant’s sister testified in support of alibi. |
| Quotes from Exoneree Testimony | Missing portion of transcript |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Type of Forensic Evidence |
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| Types of Flawed Forensics |
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| Reason why invalid | (2) Failure to exclude |
| Brief Quote / Description of Testimony | The analyst testified that despite the lack of A blood group substances in the three separate stains tested, that he could not exclude the defendant, who was an AB secretor, hypothesizing that perhaps the defendant was only a “weak” A secretor, although blood tests of the defendant did not reveal him as such a “weak” A secretor. |
| Identity of eyewitness |
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| Lineup Procedures |
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| Suggestive Procedures | Yes (acquaintance) ● Suggestive remarks – victim later said in a deposition that he had been asked to “pick out Jimmie Bain.” ● Suggestive line-up – others in array did not have the very bushy eyebrows that victim described |
| Quotes from testimony #1 | “Q. Did the police department show you a bunch of pictures? A. Yes, sir. … Q. How did they show them to you? . . . A. Yeah. I looked – he asked me can I pick out Jimmie Bains. Q. Can you pick out who? A. Jimmie Bain. And I picked him out. Q. All right. Now the man that you picked out – he said can you pick out Jimmie Bains and you picked him out. A. Yes, sir.” |
| Unreliable Identification? | No ●Discrepancy – facial hair |
| Quotes from testimony #2 | “He got a moustache, a beard, and the moustache – because he got thick sideburns” “Q. Could you be mistaken, now? A. Yes, sir.” |
| Highest level reached | State Post Conviction |
| Claims Raised During All Appeals and Postconviction |
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| Citations to judicial opinions | Bain v. State, 320 So.2d 57 (Fla. App. 2 Dist. 1975) |