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DNA testing proves exonerated convict
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Posted By: Beardo, 6/16/2022 8:32:46 PM

In 1990 a horse groomer named Pamela Albertson was raped and murdered at Pompano Beach racetrack in Florida. Robert Earl Hayes, who also worked at the track, was arrested and charged with the crime and was convicted and sentence(d) to death in 1991. One of the key elements in the trial was the then relatively new use of DNA evidence to prove Hayes’ guilt. (snip) In 1997 the results of the 1990 trial were thrown out on the grounds that the DNA evidence was not reliable. Hayes was tried again without the DNA evidence and this time he was exonerated and became a kind of mini-celebrity.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Starboard_side 6/16/2022 9:00:56 PM (No. 1188317)
What I'd like to see is they process any / all DNA evidence they have on file still. Make sure, particularly on these older cases where it may not have been "proven" and thrown out, or not available, and may end up exonerate someone who has been convicted but didn't actually do it based on the DNA. I'm sure there are more who didn't do it, than this example. We need to get to a place where DA's (major part of the criminal justice system) aren't simply looking for career moves Let's just get it right - that would be justice.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Vesicant 6/16/2022 9:11:35 PM (No. 1188330)
Does this mean The Innocence Project will start a sister company called The Guilt Project?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: formerNYer 6/16/2022 9:13:54 PM (No. 1188332)
Between DNA and video surveillance it is very hard to commit a crime and get away with it anymore. Now they are using databases of DNA to find a familiar match and if they get one close enough, they gotcha!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Omen55 6/16/2022 9:21:08 PM (No. 1188342)
Lefty Justice is never having to say guilty to the guilty.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Newtsche 6/16/2022 11:28:48 PM (No. 1188431)
That's besainted Dream Teamer Barry Scheck's Innocence Project. The OJ trial showed how Scheck used DNA to cloud clear results and one can only imagine how many guilty people have walked away thanks to Barry, the king of loopholes, smoke and mirrors. Don't even think about who has paid for Scheck's chicanery.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: lakerman1 6/16/2022 11:37:28 PM (No. 1188442)
One of the two Innocence Project directors was interviewed during the Duke LaCrosse case, and I remember his words, when responding to a question about the DNA testing of the players. Here it is. mm "The absence of DNA evidence is not evidence of innocence." (All of the white players were tested, and not one of them contributed to Crystal Mangum's substantial collection of sperm in her vagina. She was a prostitute, and now is in prison for killing her pimp. The black player was not tested because Crystal said he was not involved.) Think about that quote, though._The Co-director has devoted his life to the testing of DNA in order to free wrongly convicted men. But with the Duke case,. he implicitly refuted his professional life's work! I suspect that the collection and preservation of DNA prior to 1990 was pretty haphazard. And that allows the Innocence Project to sometimes free the guilty.
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