Kirstin Blaise Lobato Files Petition For DNA Testing
By Hans Sherrer Justice Denied magazine Kirstin Blaise Lobato filed a petition on Friday, February 25 in the Clark County, Nevada District Court seeking an order for post-conviction DNA testing of...
View ArticleNV Supreme Court Rules Denial Of Post-conviction DNA Testing Can’t Be Appealed
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on January 12, 2012 that a district court’s denial of post-conviction DNA testing cannot be appealed. In 2009 Nevada amended its post-conviction DNA testing law NRS...
View ArticleHuman Hair Protein Identification Can Be More Precise Than DNA Testing
A groundbreaking technique of biological identification that relies on information encoded in proteins of human hair has been developed by scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),...
View Article21,587 People Exonerated In Massachusetts Due To Fraudulent Crime Lab Testing
21,587 drug related convictions were vacated by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on April 19, 2017. The Court also ordered dismissal of the cases. It was by far the most exonerations on a...
View ArticleAnnie Dookhan’s Eight Year Rampage Of Faking Scientific Evidence To Convict...
Justice Denied Editorial Annie Dookhan’s saga of sabotaging more than twenty-one thousand criminal cases in Massachusetts during the eight years she “worked” as a chemist in the Hinton State Laboratory...
View ArticleAlan Staines Cleared Of 2004 Burglary Conviction Caused By Bungled DNA...
Alan Staines has been cleared of a 2004 burglary in Perth, Australia. More than a dozen years after his conviction, the lab that conducted the DNA test of crime scene evidence discovered it...
View ArticleAlan Staines Exonerated Of 2004 Burglary By Discovery Lab Misidentified Him...
Alan Staines outside court after his burglary conviction was set aside on Nov. 13, 2017. (Heather McNeill) Alan Staines’ 2004 burglary conviction in Perth, Australia was overturned on November 13, 2017...
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