Witnesses worked on rape case in which defendant was granted a new trial because of DNA evidence
In the ongoing battle over the use of controversial bite-mark evidence, two Chicago-area dentists have opened a new legal front, suing a colleague for alleged defamation because he used a Lake County rape case they worked on as an example of the oft-criticized discipline gone awry.
Dentists Russell …
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2 dentists sue colleague for criticizing their bite-mark testimony
December 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Trial Day Three
December 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Case May Boil Down to Two Forensic Experts
April 5, 2006
By Elizabeth Perry and Bridgett DiCosmo
Which bite mark expert a Fayette County jury believes could determine the outcome of the Fayette County murder trial of Crystal Weimer.
The government’s witness used innovative imaging software on autopsy photographs to conclude Ms. Weimer’s teeth made a bite mark found on Curtis …
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Innocence Project appeals rape conviction of Allegheny County man
April 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
By Rich Cholodofsky- Pittsburgh Tribune Review- Pittsburgh, PA
The Innocence Project of New York has filed an appeal of a conviction of an Allegheny County man found guilty in 1992 of brutally raping a New Kensington woman, saying prosecutors used bogus science at his trial.
John Kunco is now 43 and serving a 45- to 90-year prison sentence. He was found guilty in a four-day trial in 1992 …
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Suspect charged in sex-assault case that led to wrongful conviction
February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
February 24, 2009
By Staff from KHOU.COM- Houston, TX
The case that led to the wrongful conviction of Ricardo Rachell has finally been solved, according to prosecutors.
Andrew Wayne Hawthorne was charged Monday with the October 2002 sexual assault of an eight year-old boy.
Ricardo Rachell spent six years in prison for the crime after a jury convicted him in 2003. The District …
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Pedro Miranda to Appear in Hartford Superior Court on Three Murder Charges
January 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Matt Dwyer WTIC RADIO Farmington, CT
Pedro Miranda is scheduled to appear in Hartford Superior Court Tuesday morning.
Miranda is charged with murdering three teenage girls in Hartford in the late 1980's.
He was found recently through the use of DNA testing.
Another man had been convicted in one of the killings, and spent two decades in prison. But lawyers for the Innocence Project …
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Defender spotlights faulty forensics
November 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
By Stephen Kiehl, The Baltimore Sun
Call it the CSI list: fingerprints, gunshot residue, ballistics, toxicology, bite patterns - the full rundown of forensic methods used by prosecutors to link defendants to crime scenes.
Public perception and generations of prosecutors suggest that all of those forensic methods produce rock-solid scientific evidence against criminal defendants. And one by …
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Editorial: Junk science or not?
October 30, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The Baltimore Sun
The controversy over Baltimore County Circuit Judge Susan M. Souder's decision to throw out the testimony of a fingerprint analyst in a death penalty trial hasn't stopped. Her opinion has reached universities, judicial chambers and evidence labs across the country. But it's the National Academy of Sciences review of the forensic science field now under way that could have …
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Transcript of 08/04/2005 discussion of the Thomas Doswell case with Bill Moushey
August 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Thursday, August 04, 2005
A transcript of today's online chat with Bill Moushey, PG staff writer and director of the Innocence Institute of Point Park, about the case of Thomas Doswell, freed this week of a rape conviction by DNA evidence after nearly 20 years in jail.
(Background stories: DNA test clears man after 20 years in jail and DNA testing exonerates Thomas Doswell, who speaks of …
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Innocence Institute Led by Veteran Pittsburgh Reporter
April 13, 2004 By Leave a Comment
posted: 4/13/2004
by: Charles Geraci
Though there are now dozens of so-called innocence projects in the United States, aimed at proving that some prison inmates were wrongfully convicted, a Pittsburgh-based organization is the only one exclusively affiliated with a journalism school. Most of the others work mainly with law schools. The Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania has another …
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