A Texas prisoner who served 31 years behind bars for rape has been released after a judge ruled prosecutors withheld evidence that could have led to his acquittal. Rickey Wyatt, a 56-year-old African American, was sentenced to 99 years in prison for a sexual assault in 1980. He had gone to trial after rejecting a plea bargain for a five-year sentence. At the time, Dallas police withheld evidence that the victim in the assault had told them Wyatt was far too small to have been her attacker. The victim had also described the attacker as clean-shaven, whereas Wyatt consistently had facial hair at the time.