A man who spent a dozen years in prison for a rape he did not commit was freed, the third inmate to be released because of problems with the Houston Police Department's crime lab.

Wearing dark clothes and carrying a red mesh gym bag and a paper sack containing his belongings, Ronald Taylor greeted his family with warm embraces outside the Harris County Jail on Tuesday.

"It hasn't really sunk in. I'm just glad to see my family," he said.