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Innocence Project Seeks DNA Testing in Another Pennsylvania Case
Posted: April 21, 2009 6:28 pm
Last week, Innocence Project staff attorney Nina Morrison argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that client Anthony Wright should be granted DNA testing that could prove his innocence or guilt of a 1993 murder he says he didn’t commit.
Meanwhile, the Innocence Project filed a brief seeking DNA testing in the case of John Kunco, an Allegheny County man who was convicted in 1992 of a murder he didn’t commit. His conviction rested in part on bite-mark comparison testimony, which has been a factor is several wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing.
"Simply put, Kunco's trial was polluted and contaminated with false, misleading and grossly unreliable bite mark evidence, and as a result this court can have no confidence in the jury's decision to convict Kunco," states the appeal written by Innocence Project lawyer Craig M. Cooley.Read about wrongful conviction cases involving bite mark evidence.
Read the full story here.