Defrosting Cold Cases

Last Friday, Alaska became the 48th U.S. state to enact a law granting post-conviction DNA access to prisoners seeking to overturn wrongful convictions. After passing the state’s House and Senate with unanimous support, the measure was signed into law by Gov. Sean Parnell on May 14. Only Massachusetts and Oklahoma now lack DNA access laws in [...]

Tags: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Death Row, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Evidence Preservation, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Miscarriage of Justice, Police, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, Wrongful Convictions

Garbage belts in the USA do not only contain all that could have been recycled and should never have been bought. It also contains boxes with evidence that could have been examined for DNA and could possibly have led to someone’s exoneration or conviction. “Clarence Moses-EL may spend the rest of his life behind bars as [...]

Tags: DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Evidence Preservation, Evidence Room, Exonoration, Police Procedure, Victim, Wrongful Convictions