Some claims by man exonerated in rape can go forward

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'A judge this morning found that some of the claims raised in a civil lawsuit by a man who was wrongfully incarcerated for 19 years for rape can move forward, though two others cannot.

Thomas Doswell filed a federal lawsuit against Detective Herman Wolf, his supervisors and the city of Pittsburgh, in June 2007, alleging among other things that he was the subject of a malicious prosecution.

Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose threw out both Mr. Doswell's state and federal claims of malicious prosecution, finding that at the time of his arrest, the state did establish probable cause.

Mr. Doswell was convicted of rape and sentenced to 13 to 26 years in prison stemming from the March 13, 1986, attack of a woman who worked at Forbes Hospital. However, the conviction was vacated in August 2005 when DNA testing of seminal fluid in the case showed conclusively that Mr. Doswell was not her attacker.'