Rapist approved for release from sex offender program; state will fight

A three-judge panel has cleared a serial rapist, whose case once triggered a political firestorm, for conditional release from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, but the state Department of Human Services said Tuesday that it would appeal.

Thomas R. Duvall, 62, has spent the past 30 years locked up for the violent rapes of teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1987, Duvall bound a Brooklyn Park girl with an electrical cord and raped her repeatedly over several hours while hitting her with a hammer.

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