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SATI e-News:
February 4, 2005
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Texas Man Free
After 17 Years in Custody for a Rape that He Did Not Commit |
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The New York Times, December 22, 2004 |
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In Texas, shown by DNA testing to have been wrongly convicted of
rape in 1988, Brandon Moon was released from prison at a court
hearing—the latest among 154 men and women in the United States
exonerated by such tests.
In the courtroom, Mr. Scheck said he would ask for an audit of
all cases using evidence from the Department of Public Safety’s
former blood-testing expert, Glen David Adams whose incorrect
scientific results helped to convict Mr. Moon on three counts of
aggravated sexual assault, resulting in a 75-year sentence, and
sample checks of other crime laboratory evidence. Mr. Adams
worked at the Lubbock crime laboratory from 1986 to 1991. The
department said his whereabouts now were unknown. |
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