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February
SEX OFFENDER WINS NEW SENTENCING ON GUN CHARGE
Aiken Standard/Meg Kinnard 2/3/10 Three years after Kenneth Glenn Hinson’s acquittal on rape charges, the registered sexoffender in South Carolina this week won a new sentencing hearing on a federal gun charge. Authorities found a 9mm handgun on Hinson when they arrested him in 2006. Two teenage girlshad said Hinson, their neighbor, kidnapped them from their homes, bound and raped them in anunderground room behind his home and left them for dead. After a six-day trial in 2007, ajury acquitted Hinson, who testified he had consensual sex with both girls just