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THINK ?SCIENTIFIC? EVIDENCE IS ROCK SOLID AND UNIMPEACHABLE?

By Walin & Klarich

Ask John Jerome White. He might have a somewhat different view on the matter. According to a recent press release from the Georgia Innocence Project, Mr. White was convicted of brutally raping an elderly woman in Georgia in 1980 when he was just 20 years of age. Mr. White was sentenced to life in prison. In 1990, ten years after his conviction, Mr. White was paroled, however, being released from prison as a convicted sex offender threw Mr. White into a downward spiral, and his parole was eventually revoked, and he was sent back to state prison to serve his full life sentence. Apparently the strongest evidence against Mr. White at his trial was hairs recovered from the crime scene. The hairs were compared by authorities using ?microscopic analysis,? which was the best technology available in 1980...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).