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DNA Mixup in Las Vegas: Innocent Man Served 4 Years

By Jeralyn, Section Innocence Cases
Posted on Fri Jul 08, 2011 at 04:09:48 PM EST
Tags: wrongful convictions (all tags)
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Dwayne Jackson served four years in prison for a robbery it turns out he did not commit. An "accidental switch" of DNA samples at the Las Vegas lab, or "human error" as the news puts it, was responsible.

The state has admitted the error and a settlement has been reached. Jackson was freed from prison in 2006.

More than 200 cases will now be reanalyzed to determine if other such errors were made by this lab tech, who has been placed on administrative leave.

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    OT sort of, but my son recently toured Alcatraz (5.00 / 3) (#10)
    by Dadler on Fri Jul 08, 2011 at 07:11:39 PM EST
    His friends, he said, had fun, while Eli was disturbed by the entire place, by the idea of people locked in those cages for years on end, by the depressing reality of it all.  He doesn't even like to hear the word prison now.  The kid gives me hope for the future.  And that he devoured an entire novel last night in bed, in this day and age, when kids are gadget addicts with the attention spans of a tweet, I couldn't be prouder.  Novel was QUAKE, about a kid separated from, and trying to find, his family during the 1906 SF earthquake.