In an ugly story from California, via the San Jose Mercury News:
When an appellate court threw out the attempted rape conviction against Cameron Lee Earle, a world-class jujitsu black belt from San Jose, his friends in the martial arts community celebrated his shot at redemption.
But the 32-year-old champion fighter's victory was short-lived: A just-discovered DNA match allegedly ties him to another violent sexual assault in San Jose.
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Earle's up-and-down path through the legal system peaked last month when a Sixth District Appellate Court judge called his trial "grossly unfair." But now it has come to light that a mandatory DNA sample he provided in prison turned up a hit in the state's database for unsolved sex crimes. He has yet to be tried for that crime.
Earle had gone from a champion fighter to disgraced sex felon; and now he moves from possible freedom to a possible life sentence as a violent serial sex criminal.
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On Christmas Eve 2003, a San Jose woman was putting presents under her tree as her husband and two children slept upstairs. A masked man barged in and held a knife to her throat as she pleaded for her life. He sexually assaulted her and, putting her in a bathroom, fled with money and a coffee pot.
DNA left in the woman's hair, law enforcement authorities say, is that of Earle
