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'Nuther exoneration implicates Houston PD crime lab

While I was away from the blog this week, Texas saw its 42nd DNA exoneration, this time out of Houston - another case stemming from flawed analyses from the Houston PD crime lab. Here's the New York Times' description:It was a scene replayed with alarming frequency in Texas: a 46-year-old man walked out of prison here Friday afternoon after spending 23 years behind bars for a sex crime that the evidence suggests he did not commit.The man, Ernest Sonnier, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison largely on the strength of the victim?s testimony, even though the forensic evidence gathered from her body and clothes showed that someone with a blood type different from the defendant?s had raped her, lawyers from the Innocence Project in New York said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 08, 2009 (boomark / email).