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Released from death row, man lands in jail again
By Times Staff Writer
Published January 8, 2006
TAMPA - A man who was released from death row after 16 years for a murder two other men later confessed to was in jail again Saturday.
Rudolph Holton was picked up for a violation of probation in connection with a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Holton had been given until Saturday to find a place to live that complied with the state's sexual offender rules. When he failed to do so, he was arrested.
Holton was convicted of the 1986 slaying of a 17-year-old woman and sentenced to death. But he was released in 2003 after the state Supreme Court threw out his conviction He was arrested in December 2003 and charged with aggravated battery after, police said, he struck his wife several times with a golf club.
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