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Unlikely Allies: Victim's daugher, convicted murderer, team up to challenge Williamson DA in DNA testing request

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I meant to mention this last week when the story came out, but a Williamson County case shows how the vicissitudes of DNA testing can make for some awfully strange allies. Reported the Houston Chronicle ("Lawsuit seeks DNA test in two murders," Aug. 6):The daughter of a 1980 murder victim and a man convicted of killing his wife in 1987 have asked a federal court to force Williamson County to release evidence from both crimes for DNA testing.Pat Stapleton, 75, who discovered her mother's battered body, says she hopes the results lead to Mildred McKinney's killer. Michael Morton hopes the tests will help overturn his life sentence in the death of his wife, Christine. Both women were beaten to death in the ransacked bedrooms of their Georgetown homes, which were about a half-mile apart...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).

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