Friday, December 19, 2008

Still Another case of innocence finally proved

Every jury in such a case should be educated in the fact that eye witness testimony has been proved to be very, very unreliable.
With so many people who have been proven, because of DNA evidence, to be wrongfully convicted, there must be others in the same situation, but who can't prove it because DNA evidence is lacking.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28316500/

Man imprisoned for 20 years gets new trial
Walks out of court free; insists he never killed pregnant teen in 1988
Associated Press updated 3:22 p.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 19, 2008

HARTFORD, Conn. - A man who served 20 years in prison for a killing in which another man has now been charged walked out of court free on Friday after a judge granted him a new trial.

Miguel Roman, 52, was released on a promise to appear in court again Feb. 5.
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Two weeks ago, authorities charged another man with the 1988 murder of 17-year-old Carmen Lopez, Roman's pregnant girlfriend at the time, and announced that new DNA tests eliminated Roman as a suspect. Pedro Miranda was also charged in the killings of two other Hartford teens in the 1980s, after the new DNA tests linked him to the crimes, police said.

Roman had been serving a 60-year sentence for killing Lopez.

An FBI investigator testified in Roman's trial that tests eliminated him as a suspect, but a jury convicted him on circumstantial evidence and witness testimony, according to the arrest warrant affidavit for Miranda.

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