At 5:01 P.M. on April 25, 1978 in the Auburn police station, Dwayne Bodner, a 17-year-old boy with an I.Q. of 63 and a mental age of eight or nine, signed a written confession in the presence of his father in which he admitted setting four separate fires. After a jury trial, where the confession and substantial corroborating evidence of the fires were introduced against him, Dwayne was convicted...
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