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An Update on the Paul House Case

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"DA: Hair in victim's fist is not House's," is the AP dispatch in Nashville's Tennessean.A new DNA test shows that hair found clenched in the hand of a fatally beaten woman in 1985 does not match the man who contends he was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for more than two decades. Testifying at a Thursday hearing, District Attorney Paul Phillips said recent DNA testing shows that a hair taken from the hand of murder victim Carolyn Muncey does not match that of Paul House, who is trying to avoid another trial. In July, Phillips said he would not prosecute again if the hair found in Muncey's hand did not match House. The hair belonged to neither House nor the victim, he said, according to results from a laboratory agreed upon...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).