[Vision2020] DNA exonerates one more on death row

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Nick
There is definitely a problem. The judicial system seems to ready to convict , without iron clad proof.  I do not have a problem with the death penalty for serial kellers and other premeditated murderers, but the quilt should be without question.. There needs to be a better system to protect the innocent.
How was the rafting trip. Whare at on the Owyhee were you.
Roger
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From: nickgier at adelphia.net
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:38:47 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] DNA exonerates one more on death row

> All Charges Dropped Against NJ Man Who Once Faced the Death Penalty  
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> Prosecutors in New Jersey announced that they were dropping all charges against Larry Peterson who had been convicted of murder in 1989, saying they could no longer meet their burden of proof in his case.  Peterson's conviction was overturned last year after DNA tests failed to match him with evidence from the scene of the crime.  The state had initially sought the death penalty against Peterson, who is now 55 after spending 18 years in prison.   The Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School in New York and state prosecutors had dozens of DNA samples from hairs and elsewhere at the crime scene tested in the case. None matched Peterson's genetic makeup.  New Jersey currently has a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty while a commission studies the process.  (Associated Press, May 26, 2006).
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