dna evidence
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Police Obtain Warrant for Ancestry.com DNA Database
A Pennsylvania court gave law enforcement officers access to the world’s largest DNA database in the world. We don’t really know when this happened or why the cops wanted the data. Ancestry.com, however, refused to comply with the warrant and the issue hasn’t really been settled so…I’m sure everything will work out. Every year, the…
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Mo. Governor Stays Execution of Convicted Inmate Amid New DNA Evidence That May Prove His Innocence
Updated: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017; 3:30 p.m. EDT: Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has issued a stay of execution in the case of Marcellus Williams, who was scheduled to to die Tuesday, possibly saving the life of an innocent man, for now. According to CNN, Greitens also appointed a board to further consider Williams’ case. Williams…
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Wrongfully Convicted Tenn. Man Fights for Compensation After More Than 3 Decades in Prison
A Tennessee man is fighting to receive rightful compensation after wrongfully spending more than 30 years in prison, CBS News reports. In 1978, Lawrence McKinney was convicted by a Memphis, Tenn., jury of rape and burglary. The victim identified McKinney as one of two men who attacked her in her bedroom, and he was sentenced…
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Sex Offender Charged in 1991 Rape, Murder After 5 Men Were Wrongly Convicted
A 58-year-old convicted sex offender has been charged with the 1991 kidnapping and murder of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl, for which five wrongly convicted men spent at least a decade in prison, CBS News reports. As CBS notes, more than two years ago the five men, known as the Dixmoor Five, reached a $40…