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Friday Roundup: DNA Access and Police Misconduct
Posted: August 5, 2011 1:13 pm
We reported Monday on the case of Alvin Jardine III, who was cleared in Hawaii after two decades in prison, and the Maui News ran an in-depth story on the case yesterday.
A Massachusetts Senator applauded legislation that will allow access to post-conviction DNA testing.
A Montana judge heard new evidence this week in the case of Barry Beach, who has spent 27 years in prison for a crime he has always said he didn’t commit.
The Houston Police Department is in a dispute with City Hall over how to spend federal grant money awarded to address a backlog of untested rape kits.
Nearly two decades after two New York City police officers raided a family’s apartment based solely on the word of an informant who faced drug charges, a lawsuit against the city and policemen may go to trial.