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04-24-2008, 01:38 PM
Ex-Death Row Inmate Sues Prosecutors
A death row inmate who spent 22 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA testing in a rape and murder case, has filed a lawsuit that claims detectives and prosecutors in the case withheld evidence that could have proven him innocent.
In 1982, Nicholas Yarris was convicted of the murder, rape and adduction of Linda May Craig, an employee of the Tri-State mall in Pennsylvania. In 2003, Dr. Edward Blake conducted a final round of testing on evidence found at the scene. Nicholas Yarris was excluded from all biological material connected with this crime by these tests.
On September 3rd, 2003, based on Dr. Blake's results, the court vacated Yarris's conviction and he became the 140th person in the United States to be exonerated by post conviction DNA testing - the 13th DNA exoneration from death row and the first ever in Pennsylvania.
http://crime.about.com/od/deathrow/a/yarris_suit.htm
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A death row inmate who spent 22 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA testing in a rape and murder case, has filed a lawsuit that claims detectives and prosecutors in the case withheld evidence that could have proven him innocent.
In 1982, Nicholas Yarris was convicted of the murder, rape and adduction of Linda May Craig, an employee of the Tri-State mall in Pennsylvania. In 2003, Dr. Edward Blake conducted a final round of testing on evidence found at the scene. Nicholas Yarris was excluded from all biological material connected with this crime by these tests.
On September 3rd, 2003, based on Dr. Blake's results, the court vacated Yarris's conviction and he became the 140th person in the United States to be exonerated by post conviction DNA testing - the 13th DNA exoneration from death row and the first ever in Pennsylvania.
http://crime.about.com/od/deathrow/a/yarris_suit.htm
Click link for the rest of the story.