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A truly weird development out of Kentucky

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Brian Keith Moore is on death row in Kentucky for a murder he says he didn’t commit. In 2006, Moore became the first Kentucky death row inmate to win DNA testing when a judge ordered an examination of multiple pieces of clothing that the Commonwealth claims Moore was wearing when the murder was committed. Lab techs discovered enough DNA to be tested, or so they announced two weeks ago. Under Kentucky law, however, the DNA testing was to be done in the Kentucky State Police Crime Lab. The Louisville Courier Journal notes the Assistant Attorney General representing the Commonwealth ordered, apparently with a judges order, for the State Police Crime Lab to stop the testing just hours before the results were to be returned: With Kentucky lab technicians just hours away from completing DNA testing that could exonerate death row inmate Brian Keith Moore in the 1979 murder of a Louisville man, the testing was halted at the request of state prosecutors last week, Moore’s attorney said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).