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Mistaken Identification|Wrongful Conviction|DNA

By Ron Chapman

The following story appears in the Palm Beach Post newspaper.  Although it originates in South Florida, the story could happen anywhere.DNA TESTING ON TRIAL By Susan Spencer-Wendel Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 23, 2007 WEST PALM BEACH — Exonerations using DNA evidence have topped 200 cases now, corroding confidence in the American criminal justice system. Men and women imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, many of those sexual batteries. He-said-she-said cases debunked by science decades later. Some men exonerated when they were set to be executed. Most men released from prison with a bag of belongings, some robbed of half their lives. For every person who walks out the steel door comes a wave of prisoners insisting they, too, have DNA evidence that they want tested - post-conviction claims, they are called...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on December 24, 2007 (boomark / email).