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Editorials Praise Skinner Stay

By Steve Hall

Today's Wichita Falls Times Record News contains the editorial, "Beyond the shadow of doubt."Skinner has long since declared his innocence ? as doomed convicts typically do ? and has requested that additional DNA testing be performed that could exonerate him. His lawyers, according to The Associated Press, want testing on several pieces of evidence gathered at the time of Busby?s autopsy, including vaginal swabs, fingernail clippings, a knife, a jacket found next to her body and any hairs not destroyed during previous testing. Initially, the AP reported, only hair had been tested, and the DNA findings were inconclusive.Inconclusive should be enough to give officials pause.Skinner?s appearance at the time of the murder must have been hard for a jury to forget...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).