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Mississippi innocence news

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Innocence Project is reporting: Innocence Project client Kennedy Brewer is expected to be exonerated next week after serving more than 15 years behind bars in Mississippi ? much of it on death row ? for a child murder that DNA proves he didn?t commit. The evidence should also lead to the exoneration of another Innocence Project client, who was wrongfully convicted of a separate murder. Together, the cases reveal deep and disturbing problems in Mississippi ?s criminal justice system and they present a unique opportunity to transform how cases are investigated and prosecuted in the state. An Innocence Project investigation of the cases has uncovered new evidence ? including DNA test results and a confession ? that identified the actual perpetrator in both cases, who was arrested earlier this week...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).