UM's Innocence Clinic Wants Man Accused of Rape Freed

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-09-17 11:17

Article here. Excerpt:

'ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - David Moran calls the 1986 trial against Karl Vinson a "scientific train wreck."

Moran is co-director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic at U of M. He says prosecutors presented false evidence at the original trial, including the fact that they called Vinson a "non-secretor," meaning his blood type wouldn't show up in any semen found at the scene of the crime.
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"We know," says Moran, "and the evidence shows, and every scientist we've consulted says that he is conclusively exonerated."'

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The article mentions the Innocence Project. For decades, the police ingnored mounds of evidence that photo line-ups do not work, now it turns out so many people have been exhonerated, and their convictions had to do with faulty line-up identifications, that those same dumbo police in ten states are forced to modify their procedures.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Fri, 2009-09-18 01:59