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Brown v. Farwell, No. 07-15592 (9th Cir.) (525 F.3d 787) (May 5, 2008) (Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw)

Loaded on April 1, 2008 published in Punch and Jurists April 07, 2008
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, DNA Evidence/Testing.

Here a divided panel from the Ninth Circuit vacated the sexual assault conviction of a defendant on the grounds that the prosecution had exaggerated the reliability of the DNA evidence by estimating its probability of accuracy.

This is a case that shows the wisdom of sometimes challenging even some of ...

 

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