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A question for Barry Scheck; Larry King Live Oct. 6, 2010
Topic Started: Oct 10 2010, 04:39 PM (369 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/06/lkl.01.html

(snip)

SCHECK: Well, our standard is very simple. If a DNA test can prove you innocent at the Innocence Project in New York, we'll take your case. There are now 50 other innocence projects in the United States. Not all of them rely just on DNA. We do, but that's a very simple standard. If DNA proves you innocent, we'll take your case.

KING: Simple as that?

SCHECK: Simple as that.


(snip)

KING: How many people have you got now?

SCHECK: Well, there have been 260 post conviction DNA exonerations. Our project has not been the principal in all of them, but probably two-thirds--

(snip)

SCHECK: You know, it's hard for me to imagine. I mean, as much research as I did, it's still unfathomable to try to put yourself in that position. You know, you talk to some of these people, you see documentaries, whatever you do. It's really unimaginable.

KING: Wouldn't you think you'd go nuts, Barry?

SCHECK: Well--

KING: To be in jail when you didn't do something?

(snip)





My Question:

I'd like to know if the Innocence Project would have taken on the case of the Duke Three
if they had been convicted?

Someday I wish Larry King or some other reporter who is doing an interview would ask that question


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Quasimodo

A new movie is coming out, "Conviction", which is the story of a woman who worked years to free
her wrongly-convicted brother, helped by the Innocent Project (and the occasion of the Scheck interview)

This can be a useful teaching tool (and much needed).



But I still think a syndicated TV series patterned after "America's Most Wanted", telling the story of wrongfully-convicted persons, and hosted by CDR, would do better to educate the country (and also reinforce
the fact that they themselves were falsely-accused and nearly railroaded)
.


Edited by Quasimodo, Oct 10 2010, 05:24 PM.
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Quasimodo

As well, I remember that Barry Scheck was involved in the O.J. Simpson case--certainly
someone whom he must have believed was more likely to be guilty than CDR.

CDR were proven innocent by DNA evidence so compelling that had they already been in prison, they
would have been released (their DNA was not found, the DNA of others WAS found).

O.J. had not yet been convicted--and Scheck was willing to be on the team.

But still we had Neufeld saying that "absence of evidence is not evidence",

and saying so exactly at the time when Nifong desperately needed a DNA expert to speak
with the 'voice of an expert authority' in order to save his prosecution.

If the case didn't end in April 2006 (BEFORE ANY INDICTMENTS HAD BEEN MADE),
the fault must like with Nifong; and with the PRESS, which refused to ask any hard questions;
and IMHO with Neufeld;

who at that moment in April had the power to END the case with a simple repetition
of what he has believed in and worked for through decades--that DNA evidence of
the type provided in the lax case, under the alleged circumstances,

absolutely and irrefutably cleared the defendants beyond any reasonable doubt.


And I'd like to know why he avowed otherwise for this one case...
Edited by Quasimodo, Oct 10 2010, 05:25 PM.
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MikeZPU

Once again: how does DNA clear someone, since "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" ?

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/alan-newton-wrongfully-imprisoned-for-rape-awarded-185-million-by-jury/19681954

Man Cleared of Rape Wins $18.5 Million Jury Award

Lisa Flam
Contributor
(Oct. 20) -- A jury has awarded $18.5 million to a New York City man who spent more than 20 years in jail for rape before he was cleared by DNA evidence.

The amount awarded Tuesday to Alan Newton is among the largest given to a wrongfully imprisoned person in New York City, The New York Times reported.

The jury ruled that the city violated the constitutional rights of Newton, 49, who was released from prison about four years ago.

Newton was convicted in 1985 of rape, robbery and assault, based mostly on eyewitness testimony, the Times said. DNA testing on a rape kit found in 2005 showed that DNA from the victim did not match that of Newton.

"I'm just real numb right now," Newton told the Times. "It hasn't really sunk in. It's so emotional. It's something I've been fighting for the last four years, since I came home. I'm just glad things worked out at the end of the day."

A spokeswoman for the city's Law Department said the city was "disappointed" and planned to appeal.
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Quasimodo

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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/TheLaw/dna-spray-scares-robbers/story?id=11927740

DNA Spray Links Criminals to the Place They Robbed
SelectaDNA Spray Is in Nine Countries and May Be in the U.S. Soon

By MARY PLUMMER
LONDON Oct. 21, 2010

Bank robbers have been wary of the exploding money pack that covers them with a bright colored dye for years.

But now they've got one more thing to worry about as a more sophisticated way of marking robbers is making its way into stores and businesses that are frequently targeted by thieves, a device that sprays an invisible DNA mist on the bad guys that won't wash off for weeks.

The mist, which is now being used in nine countries and coming to the U.S. soon, shows up under ultraviolent light and contains a DNA code that police stations scan for when they bring in criminals. The unique code irrefutably links criminals to the scene of the crime.

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The mist is so fine, it's unlikely a robber would know he's been hit. It sinks into the target's skin and hair where it sits for weeks.

"You can take a shower three times a day, but the DNA stays on,
" said Jean-Paul Fafie, the manager at one of several McDonald's restaurants in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that had the spray system installed.



But the total absence of DNA from a half-hour struggle and gang rape in a confined space, is NOT proof that no such struggle and rape took place--
--The Innocence Project
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