Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Happy Mother's Day

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Leroy Harris will be spending Mother's Day with his mom today for the first time in 29 years. Last November, Mr. Harris was released ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Play ball!

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In 1994, Antwinica Bridgeman disappeared after attending a party for her 20th birthday. Her body was found two weeks later by Nevest Coleme...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Did Georgia just murder an innocent man?

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On Thursday night t he State of Georgia likely executed a man who was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. Carlton Gary died...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

At least it's not a needle

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Police arrest suspect. Police take suspect to jail. Police take suspect's fingerprints when he is booked in for identification purposes....
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Judge denies request to test evidence in death row case

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That clock keeps a-ticking. That clock that's counting down the days, hours, minutes that Hank Skinner has remaining. Mr. Skinner has an...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Williamson County DA dragged kicking and screaming toward justice

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John Bradley did his best to keep Michael Morton locked up behind bars. Even while presiding over the (emasculated) Texas Forensic Science C...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Hear the one about the guy who thought he was innocent unless proven guilty?

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Innocent unless proven guilty? Really? Try telling that to Jose Torres . Mr. Torres was charged with aggravated sexual assault. It was all...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Book Review: False Justice

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Jim Petro is a rock-ribbed Republican who is a former Attorney General of Ohio. He is the most unlikely person to get involved in the innoce...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Big Brother wants your DNA

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"All persons are presumed to be innocent and no person may be convicted of an offense unless each element of the offense is proved beyo...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Convicted rapist exonerated by DNA

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Ernest Sonnier who was released from prison last August when evidence surfaced that he had been wrongly convicted of a 1985 rape was exoner...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

To test or not to test...

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So the revolving door in the death house keeps a-spinning as one Hank Skinner is scheduled to be the next guest of honor at the Executioner...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Fun with forensics

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Gov. Rick Perry's choice to head the Texas Forensic Science Commission received a slap in the face from the Austin Court of Appeal yeste...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The DNA effect

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Fearful that a jury will accept DNA evidence as definitive as a result of the so-called "CSI Effect?"  New research indicates tha...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Giving credit where credit is due

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Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos blasted the Houston Police Department and her predecessor for their roles in the wrongful convict...
Friday, February 6, 2009

DNA testing clears Texas man who died behind bars

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Travis County District Judge Charles Baird has ordered the posthumous expunctio n of Timothy Cole's record. Mr. Cole died in prison wh...
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