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July 4th, 2008
Posted: 10:43 PM ET
(CNN) — Paul House says you’ll have to excuse him if he isn’t feeling especially patriotic this Fourth of July. House, 46, spent 22 years on Tennessee’s death row for the 1985 rape and murder of his neighbor, Carolyn Muncey. Thanks to an appeals court ruling, House was released Wednesday, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that new DNA evidence could have led a jury to acquit him. House, who has multiple sclerosis, faces a new trial in October, though prosecutors will not be seeking the death penalty. In the mean time, he said he is thrilled to be spending July 4 with his family for the first time in more than 22 years. But he admits that his experience has changed him. “I’m not patriotic at all, and I don’t think I should be because of what those idiots have done to me,” House said Friday in a phone interview from his mother’s home in Crossville, Tennessee. “I think I may have forgiven them, but who knows.” |
 
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