Word: trialing
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What you failed to mention about Barry Scheck [NATION, Sept. 13] is that this is the same Barry Scheck who convincingly argued in the O.J. Simpson trial that DNA samples can be contaminated and made useless (or at least open to "reasonable doubt") as scientific evidence in a criminal trial. Through his own arguments, we are left with two possible conclusions: either Scheck is freeing potentially guilty people through the Innocence Project, or he successfully defended a double murderer he knew to be guilty. I don't know whether to laud this man or deplore him. JEFFREY M. LLEWELLYN Denver...
...March 1997, the Supreme Judicial Court overruled Barton's decision and ordered that the two women return to prison. In September of that year, Violet Amirault died of cancer and LeFave continued on alone in her quest for a new trial. She was not taken back to prison...
Last year, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein reversed her conviction and ordered a new trial, saying that there was new evidence to suggest that the children's testimony in the original trial might have been tainted...
However, on August 18, the Supreme Judicial Court overturned Borenstein's decision and denied LeFave's motion for a new trial...
Gerald Amirault, who has also tried to request a new trial, has been denied, and he remains in prison...