"Murder cases often are riddled with problems: mistaken eyewitnesses, bad lawyers, shoddy forensics, unreliable jailhouse informants, coerced confessions, and more."
"When DNA evidence is available, courts can block access to testing, even if it could exonerate someone"
"Case in point: Ray Krone was sentenced to death in Arizona for kidnapping and murder, even though DNA found on the victim wasn't his. The state argued against having the DNA submitted to the database since the jury convicted him even without physical evidence. A decade later, a crime lab worker ran the DNA through the database on her own, without a court order, and found the person who actually committed the crime."
"When DNA evidence is available, courts can block access to testing, even if it could exonerate someone"
"Case in point: Ray Krone was sentenced to death in Arizona for kidnapping and murder, even though DNA found on the victim wasn't his. The state argued against having the DNA submitted to the database since the jury convicted him even without physical evidence. A decade later, a crime lab worker ran the DNA through the database on her own, without a court order, and found the person who actually committed the crime."