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The nation’s most inaccurate murder prosecutor?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

District Attorney Forrest Allgood oversees a fairly small prosecutor’s office; his office has just five attorneys covering four counties. Allgood has now convicted at least three people of murders they didn’t commit in three separate homicides. The Associated Press is now beginning to weigh the results of an unholy trinity between a shady medical examiner — Dr. Steven Hayne, (whose work is quickly becoming notorious among the states of the Gulf Coast), bite mark “expert” Dr. Michael West, and Allgood. Allgood now describes the results of the trinity’s work as a “trainwreck.” The wrongful convictions include one death row inmate and a 13 year-old of murder. The Agitator has more.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).