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Friday Roundup: Overturned Convictions and Troubled Crime Labs
Posted: February 11, 2011 4:40 pm
An Ohio man who was convicted of murder based primarily on snitch testimony had his conviction overturned this week when a judge ordered a new trial.
An Arizona man convicted in a shaken baby case will receive a new trial in light of evidence pointing toward innocence.
A North Carolina judge ruled the Racial Justice Act — a law that gives death-row inmates the ability to commute their sentences to life by presenting evidence of racial bias — constitutional.
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has teamed with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to author legislation requiring state and local governments who receive federal grant money to test backlogged DNA evidence in sexual assault cases.
A New York crime lab that was put on probation in December for misconduct produced flawed test results.
An Ohio court ruled that an innocent man who was wrongfully convicted of rape cannot sue law enforcement for prosecutorial misconduct.