Another murder conviction overturned on DNA evidence. ARE YOU LISTENING ARKANSAS?

[The99thTimeLord]

“I knew this day would come one day”

"Evin King, 59, was convicted of killing his girlfriend, Crystal Hudson, in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 15 years. But with advances in DNA testing confirming his innocence, King is set to be released Wednesday.

Hudson was found strangled and beaten in a closet in her apartment. At the time of King’s conviction, the DNA samples gathered as evidence couldn’t be tested. After the Ohio branch of the Innocence Project took up King’s case, the organization successfully motioned for new DNA testing in 2008. Forensics later revealed that while the samples gathered from semen found in Hudson’s body and in skin cells underneath her fingernails matched, they didn’t come from King. He began filing for his freedom in 2010."

https://news.vice.com/story/cleveland-man-evin-king-will-be-released-after-23-years-in-prison



ARKANSAS, Don't put these men to death until all DNA tests that could prove their innocence/guilt. A drug's shelf life shouldn't determine if people die in the first place, but lets at least exhaust the possibilities of our mistakes if we have the ability to do so.

[democrank]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I don't understand why DNA testing isn't mandatory where applicable.

[spanone]

5. especially when it gets to the execution stage

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Every time cops rush a false conviction, the real criminal goes free & commits more crime. . . nt

[PdxSean]

6. Cops can't do it alone.

To convict innocent people, it also takes prosecutors, judges, juries and a media willing to digest the false narratives.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Yes but cops & prosecutors literally frame the narrative & even plant false evidence sometimes. nt

[ATL Ebony]

3. Are you listening America and ESPECIALLY Neil Gorsuch

[Sunlei]

4. testing in 2008 "He began filing for his freedom in 2010." ARKANSAS wants to kill innocent people.

[PdxSean]

7. And, of course, the true rapist and murderer was left to rape and murder again.