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SCOTUS Stays Texas Execution With 20 Minutes to Spare by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After granting a rare stay of execution minutes before a condemned Texas prisoner’s date with death, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) agreed on October 4, 2024, to hear his challenge to a …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DNA Matches Dead Australian to Nebraska Prisoner Who Escaped 56 Years Ago by After his death in 2010 at age 69, John Vincent Damon’s family members would occasionally walk through Tamborine Mountain Cemetery in Queensland, Australia, just to stand at his grave. He left behind a wife and two adult …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Asylum
DOJ to Treat Immigrants Like Criminals by Collecting DNA Samples by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that federal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents will begin collecting DNA samples for criminal investigation from immigrants designated for detention in Immigration and …
Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Rikers Prisoner Smuggles DNA Evidence of Rape Out of Jail; $500,000 Settlement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A female Rikers Island prisoner who was raped by a guard had to sneak DNA evidence of the sexual assault out of the jail to get anyone to believe her story. As …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
DNA: To Collect or Not to Collect? by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon While media attention tends to focus on the use of DNA evidence to free wrongly convicted prisoners – the Innocence Project counts 365 such exonerations since the first in 1989 – far more DNA samples are collected …
Publication • January 2, 2019
American Statistical Association Position on Statitical Statement, American Statistical Association, 2019 American Statistical Association Position on Statistical Statements for Forensic Evidence Presented under the guidance of the ASA Forensic Science Advisory Committee* January 2, 2019 Overview The American Statistical Association (ASA) has supported efforts to strengthen the inferential foundations that …
Article • September 5, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Study Finds Wrongful Convictions in 11.6 Percent of Sexual Assault Cases from Pre-DNA Testing Era by A recent study by the Urban Institute estimated that “wrongful convictions in cases with a sexual assault component occurred at a rate of 11.6 percent.” While the research was based on 714 murder and …
Article • July 7, 2018
$1.25M Settlement for Chicago Man Coerced into Confessing to Rape and Murder by Christopher Zoukis Harold Hill, who was coerced into confessing to a rape and murder, and freed from prison when DNA evidence exonerated him nearly 13 years later, settled with the Chicago Police Department for $1,250,000. Attorney's fees …
Ohio: Almost $3 Million Settlement in Suit Brought by Two Wrongfully Convicted Men by Matthew Clarke Ohio: Almost $3 Million Settlement in Suit Brought by Two Wrongfully Convicted Men by Matt Clarke In March 2017, a state court judge approved a $2.9 million settlement between Ohio and two men who …
Brief • March 6, 2018
Ohio v. Noling, OH, Opinion, DNA, 2018 [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State v. Noling, Slip Opinion No. 2018-Ohio-795.] NOTICE This slip opinion is subject to formal revision before it is published in an advance sheet of the Ohio …
Brief • March 1, 2018
In re Watford, VA, Opinion, Evidence, 2018 PRESENT: All the Justices IN RE: ROY L. WATFORD, III Record No. 161187 OPINION BY JUSTICE CLEO E. POWELL March 1, 2018 UPON A PETITION FOR A WRIT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE Roy L. Watford, III, (“Watford”) petitions this Court to grant a writ …
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Denver Man, Accused of Rape Due to Mishandled DNA, Has Lawsuit Dismissed by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Shawnnon Hale, 24, wrongful accused of felony rape and jailed for 61 days, was released from custody in Denver, Colorado in early 2015 when the police crime lab acknowledged it had mislabeled …
Article • July 20, 2017
Guilty Plea Does Not Foreclose Oregon DNA Testing Request; No Credibility Findings at Appointment of Counsel Stage by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's refusal to appoint counsel on a request for DNA testing, twice. The court instructed that a guilty plea …
Article • June 30, 2017 • from PLN July, 2017
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Texas Forensic Science Commission Addresses Problem with DNA Testing Protocols by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The mission of the Texas Forensic Science Commission (TFSC) is to set standards for the use of scientific evidence in the state’s criminal justice system. In investigating the proper standards for DNA testing during …
Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
COA Not Required for Innocence Protection Act Appeals by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held last year that a Certificate of Appealability is not required to appeal the denial of a motion for DNA testing pursuant to the Innocence Protection Act (IPA), though the Court affirmed the denial of …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Defense Attorneys Seek Access to DNA-Matching Software’s Source Code by Matthew Clarke TrueAllele DNA testing software has been employed in hundreds of criminal cases around the country since 2009. The software is used to analyze evidence containing mixtures of genetic material and determine whether it contains a match to a …
Illinois: DNA Evidence Exonerates One Man, Implicates Another by On September 28, 2016, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced charges against convicted murderer Osborne Wade, 42, in connection with the brutal sexual assault and murder of a child in 1992. The charges followed an extensive investigation by the State’s …
Widespread Failures at Crime Labs Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System by Derek Gilna Crime labs nationwide continue to face seemingly intractable problems – particularly in terms of unreliable forensic evidence testing and being influenced by law enforcement and prosecutorial bias. Despite efforts at reform, and efforts to implement technological …
Few Oklahoma Exonerees Paid for Their Wrongful Incarceration by Matthew Clarke Despite Oklahoma having a wrongful-conviction compensation statute on the books since 2003, few exonerees in that state have received payment. One example of the battles exonerees face is the case of Greg Wilhoit, who was sentenced to death for …
Illinois Man Falsely Convicted of Rape Released After 20 Years by Matthew Clarke On March 9, 2015, the rape and kidnapping charges against Angel Gonzalez that had held him in prison for nearly 20 years were dismissed. He had been exonerated by DNA evidence. However, he was not immediately released …
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