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...President's list included some lines that were not available for scientific use and others that are tied up by private companies--a fact the White House readily acknowledges. All 12, moreover, were cultured using mouse cells as a growth medium, raising the fear that they might carry mouse DNA or mouse viruses...
...been assaulted. She went to Vail Valley Medical Center for tests. At 11:30 that night, some 24 hours after the alleged incident, investigators from the sheriff's office quizzed Bryant in his room and collected evidence. Hours later, technicians at Valley View Hospital took samples of Bryant's DNA...
D.A.s have other concerns too. The National District Attorneys Association has called for DNA testing "at any stage of a criminal proceeding--even up to the eve of execution"--and stiff penalties for defense lawyers who don't adequately represent capital suspects. But Earle is going further. He is trying to do in his corner of Texas what death-penalty opponents say is impossible: enforce capital punishment flawlessly, ensuring that the innocent never spend a day on death row and the guilty are sent there only after trials free of bias and vengeance. Earle hopes that by raising every conceivable...
...were sentenced to life in prison. But in 1996 another Texas inmate, Achim Marino, started writing letters--to police, to the Austin American-Statesman, to Governor George W. Bush and eventually to the D.A.'s office--saying he had killed DePriest. Few believed him until 2000, when DNA tests revealed that Marino was in fact the sole killer...
...Case to lead a task force to review hundreds of the office's old cases for any other errors. If an inmate still claimed innocence and if biological material from the crime still existed, prosecutors investigated further. Eventually they whittled down the list to seven inmates for whom new DNA tests might establish innocence. (None of the tests have been conducted yet because a new state law requires that the already overworked courts oversee the process of locating and testing biological material...