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Getting the basics right

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Crim Prof blog looks at one of the most basic parts of the criminal justice system, evidence. In this case preserving evidence so that guilty can be punished and the innocent exonerated. Unfortunately, in this post, examples as why that basic function of the criminal justice system sometimes doesn’t happen. The defense said it wanted to do more extensive testing than that performed by the prosecution. It couldn’t. The blood evidence had already been discarded by doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina. It had been stored for about two years but was trashed because the medical school needed the storage space. No one knows if the conviction of Wesley Smith in his homicide-by-child-abuse trial would have been affected had the tests been performed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).