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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-wrongful-conviction-new-arrests-20181015-story.html

An affair led to his conviction in a co-worker's murder. Now, he is free and the victim's husband has been arrested

When authorities found the body of Terry Cheek on rocks near Corona Lake’s shoreline two decades ago, they also found a watch.

That timepiece, found next to the strangled body of the married mother of two, belonged to Horace Roberts, a co-worker with whom she was having a secret affair, Riverside County prosecutors insisted.

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After three trials, Roberts was convicted in Cheek’s murder — based mostly on the Lorus watch that was found next to her body. A type of watch Roberts acknowledged owning.

But DNA testing in March forced by the California Innocence Project revealed that DNA from Cheek's fingernails did not belong to Roberts, but rather to someone related to her husband.

Two weeks ago, Roberts was secretly freed from prison after both the Riverside County district attorney and the California Innocence Project agreed that he was wrongly convicted and that two other men are responsible for Cheek’s death in April 1998.

The new suspects — Cheek’s husband, Googie Harris Sr., 62, and a nephew, Joaquin Leal III — were arrested Friday on suspicion of murder.

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Justin Brooks, the founder of the California Innocence Project, said that Cheek's husband had “set up Roberts.” “It’s the oldest story there is in the murder business. Husband kills wife who is cheating on him. The twist, in this case, is that the husband set up the lover to go to prison for the rest of his life.”

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Two months after Cheek’s killing, Leal was charged with molesting a child under 14. He was convicted of oral copulation of an unconscious victim in August 1998. He served six months in jail and was required to register as a sex offender. His DNA became part of the state criminal database.

“No one had any idea who Leal was since his name did not appear in any of the case files,” said Semanchik, one of Roberts’ lawyers. But Leal’s victim in his sex crime case, according to Semanchik, was the child of a woman Harris had dated after Cheek’s death.

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Googie Rene Harris, Sr. / Joaquin Lateee Leal
 
Prob shouldnt have been banging this dudes whore wife. Among the least sympathetic wrongfully convicted stories. Gotta be careful where you put your cock.
 
Holy shit! Old 'One Eye' over there is fucking terrifying.

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