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Another exoneration brewing in NJ?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This new post at the the Innocence Project’s blop looks at a brewing murder exoneration in New Jersey. After two mistrials and a third trial that ended with a hung jury, Darrell Edwards was convicted of a 1995 Newark murder in his fourth trial. The main evidence against him was eyewitness testimony. The prosecution argued that Edwards shot the victim in a sandwich shop and then fled down the street, tossing a hooded sweatshirt and gun. New DNA testing has revealed a mixture of male profiles on the sweatshirt and gun, none of which match Edwards. And an eyewitness who testified at trial that she identified him from 271 feet away (at night) without wearing her glasses now says she was “just guessing.”. . . “The person who committed this crime left their DNA on the sweatshirt and the DNA does not belong to Darrell Edwards,” (Innocence Project Staff Attorney Vanessa) Potkin said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).