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...year-old daughter Elizabeth, whom he was raising as a single father. His co-defendant, Ron Williamson, landed on death row and came within days of being executed. Years later, Williamson's conviction was reversed on a technicality. Before retrying him, prosecutors decided to do a DNA test of semen and hair found at the crime scene and compare them with Williamson's. Fritz's lawyers asked them to test Fritz too. Result? The DNA excluded both men and implicated someone else who had never been charged with the crime. Last April, after 12 years behind bars, Fritz and Williamson...
...Innocence Project's criteria: When the inmate was tried, was identity the key issue? (If he admitted he pulled the trigger but claimed it was self-defense, there's not a lot a DNA test can do to help.) Was biological evidence taken at some point? In rape cases semen is generally recovered, and in murder cases there is often hair or skin evidence. But some samples come from less obvious sources: in the World Trade Center bombing case, DNA was recovered from saliva on the back of a postage stamp. And does this evidence still exist? The project...
...gained national attention as much for the youth of the suspects as for the crime's sickening details. Harris' body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot, her head smashed with a rock, panties stuffed in her mouth and leaves in her nostrils. A month later, after semen was discovered in her underwear, the charges against the boys were dropped, and DNA tests linked the crime to a convicted sex offender who faces three other charges of sexual assault committed within blocks of where Harris' body was found. Still, it wasn't until last week that Cook County...
...than from sex with their spouse. Besides, if anatomy has anything to do with destiny, you would expect the human female, with her unique ecstasy organ--the clitoris--to be the sexual powerhouse of the species. The man's penis, after all, has to double as a urine-and-semen-delivery tube and contains only half as many nerve fibers as the more refined and specialized clitoris...
...human story, not as a series of discrete actions. That's why the Starr report's prurient narrative backfired so badly: by putting flesh on the bones, it made the story plausible. And that is the fatal first step toward empathy. Comic details like gifts of poetry and the semen-stained dress make it harder, not easier, for reasonable people to remain solemn enough for an impeachment...