by admin | Jan 11, 2003 | Crime / Courts
DNA testing can prove innocence … it can also prove guilt. Test results confirm Kenneth Charron’s DNA matches the DNA investigators recovered from the home of a deaf St. Louis woman who was raped in 1985. Charron is already serving a life sentence for...
by admin | Dec 5, 2002 | News
The new session of the State Legislature will see a bill that would expand DNA testing of prisoners. Missouri law enforcement officials currently use some DNA testing. Now, there’s an effort to increase the scope of that testing to include more convicted felons....
by admin | Sep 6, 2002 | Crime / Courts
DNA tests will be run on a man in prison for 15 years for rape. The tests will be run on George Biddy. The woman involved says she had sexual relations with her boyfriend shortly before she was raped by Biddy. The St. Louis prosecutor had opposed the DNA tests on...
by admin | May 20, 2002 | Crime / Courts
A leader of a national program that uses DNA tests to free people wrongly sent to prison years ago says the St. Louis prosecutors are “outlandish” in their refusal to cooperate with the program. But St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce says the tests...
by admin | Jun 19, 2001 | Crime / Courts
DNA evidence doesn’t always free prisoners. Sometimes it confirms convictions. A case filed by the Innocence Project in Missouri proved the inmate guilty. Fred Hamilton of St. Louis was the subject of the case. He was convicted of a 1985 rape. DNA testing did...
