Defense Lawyers Say DNA Evidence Clears Duke Players

NPR Morning Edition;  April 11, 2006 ;     661 words ......Defense Lawyers Say DNA Evidence Clears Duke Players...Attorney in Durham, North Carolina. Defense lawyers...that even without DNA evidence, hell still have...results of the DNA tests, and theyre...historically black North Carolina Central University...

North Carolina Bar denies motion for district attorney's dismissal

University Wire;  April 16, 2007 ;     553 words ......Disciplinary Hearing Commission of the North Carolina State Bar rejected a motion to...withholding potentially exculpatory DNA evidence from the defense. The hearing came two days after North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dismissed...Nifong's concealment of critical DNA ...

DNA evidence exonerates 200th person

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 24, 2007 ;     566 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-24-2007 DNA evidence exonerates 200th person -- Technology...Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions DNA evidence cleared its 200th person Monday...he is the retired chief justice of North Carolina's Supreme Court, someone who spent...in ...

ARE THE INNOCENT BEHIND BARS WITH THE GUILTY?\ A JOINT PROJECT BY DUKE AND...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  March 24, 2000 ;     527 words ......distinguished North Carolina law schools...project has used DNA evidence to overturn the...factors, including DNA evidence, false eyewitness...guilty? Here in North Carolina, UNC law Professor...11 years when DNA evidence proved he was...Cottons among ...

Man falsely convicted in newspaper employee's slaying receives pardon in...

AP Worldstream;  April 17, 2004 ;     379 words ......Worldstream 04-17-2004 Dateline: RALEIGH, North Carolina A man who served 18 years in prison...didn't commit has been pardoned by the North Carolina governor and could be eligible for...sentence in prison in December when DNA evidence led police to another man who confessed...her ...

North Carolina killer wants to avoid being 1,000th inmate executed since...

AP Worldstream;  November 30, 2005 ;     639 words ......Worldstream 11-30-2005 Dateline: RALEIGH, North Carolina An inmate set to become the 1,000th...presidential nomination, said destroyed DNA evidence led him to reduce Robin Lovitt...Boyd is seeking clemency from North Carolina Governor Mike Easley. A federal...affair. The other case ...

The Duke case was a travesty, The biggest shame in North Carolina was...

Charleston Daily Mail;  April 13, 2007 ;     367 words ...NORTH Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper told the...the announcement came a year after DNA evidence had exonerated them. This sad story...pursued this case despite the irrefutable DNA evidence that cleared the men. The public gives...

A REASONABLE DOUBT: ARE THERE INNOCENT PEOPLE ON NORTH CAROLINA'S DEATH...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  August 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ......DNA exonerate any of North Carolina's death row inmates? Nobody knows. But what DNA evidence has revealed about...including three from North Carolina - and fearful that...either because no DNA evidence was collected or because...be put to death in North ...

NEW INFORMATION, DNA EVIDENCE EMERGES IN 17 YEAR OLD COLD CASE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 11, 2008 ;     498 words ......disappearance. Although DNA evidence had been obtained during...was made to a suspect in North Carolina. It is a result of modern...case. Smith, who is now in North Carolina, resided in the Short North...2008 in Alamance County, North Carolina, where he is being held...

Va. Governor Seeks Tests of DNA Evidence

AP Online;  September 5, 2004 ;     440 words ......proposal to test random samples of old DNA evidence from thousands of crime scenes after...Burton. The two other men freed through DNA evidence saved by Burton had served a combined...to 1988 and saved copious amounts of DNA evidence even before the genetic fingerprint...

Panel debates use of DNA evidence

Charleston Gazette;  May 8, 1999 ;     383 words ......whether convicts should be allowed to use DNA evidence to win their freedom after the time...National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence met to examine DNA issues and make recommendations...Court judge from Phoenix who noted that DNA evidence has disproved eyewitness accounts ...

DNA evidence cannot be solely relied on: Chemist

The Malay Mail;  January 12, 1999 ;     216 words ......Kong Boon told the court yesterday that DNA evidence could not be solely relied on to find...DNA expert Henry Roberts. Lim said a DNA evidence should be supported by other evidence...told the court that it means that the DNA evidence is very strong and they must exercise...

SJC backs use of DNA evidence

The Boston Globe;  November 19, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Court yesterday approved the use of DNA evidence in crimimal trials for the first time...other states in accepting some form of DNA evidence, which is considered the most significant...decision, Judge Lance Ito ruled that some DNA evidence, possibly linking O.J. Simpson to the...

DNA evidence: balancing the scales of justice.

LawNow;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......first Canadian criminal case involving DNA evidence in 1989, there has been a steady growth...justice system is embracing the use of DNA evidence in criminal trials, there are causes...we examined some of the impacts that DNA evidence has had on the criminal justice system...

Va. governor seeks random check of DNA evidence

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 5, 2004 ;     483 words ......09-05-2004 Va. governor seeks random check of DNA evidence -- Fears past errors at state lab By...proposal to test random samples of old DNA evidence from thousands of crime scenes after...Burton. The two other men freed through DNA evidence saved by Burton had served a combined...