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'A Perfect Storm' from Nebraska

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The Lincoln Journal Star has put together a first-class report on what it bills as, "the story of the greatest miscarriage of justice in Nebraska's modern legal history."The introduction to the four-part series is, "'A perfect storm'." Late last year, DNA evidence from a 23-year-old murder in Beatrice shocked Nebraska by what it failed to find: a match with any of the six people convicted of the crime.Forensic tests unavailable when Helen Wilson was raped and suffocated in 1985 unraveled a legendary investigation, reversed six convictions and released three people still serving prison time ? including one for life.Then the very tests that exonerated them helped authorities identify the true killer.Nebraska joined 33 states where 227 imprisoned people have been declared innocent by DNA tests...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).