DNA Confirms Dallas Inmate's Guilt

DALLAS - DNA testing has confirmed the guilt of a Texas man who had claimed on FOX 4 that he was wrongly convicted.

FOX 4's Shaun Rabb interviewed Timothy Hill in August . He was convicted in 1998 and given a 20-year sentence for rape he said he didn't do it.

Hill told FOX 4 about a DNA testing backlog and said he had been waiting for more than a year for the test results he hoped would set him free.

But the Dallas County District Attorney's office announced Thursday that those results showed Hill was guilty of the sexual assault for which he pleaded guilty to.

District Attorney Craig Watkins said Hill has "earned himself a return bus ride to prison," and that he will notify the parole board of Hill's frivolous innocence claim.

Dallas County leads the nation in DNA exonerations of the wrongly convicted, having seen 21 guilty verdicts set aside since 2001. Most of the county's DNA testing has confirmed the original guilty verdicts.