by admin | Feb 14, 2001 | Crime / Courts
A California, Missouri, lawmaker hopes to give judges and prosecutors guidelines for when to do DNA testing. Larry Rohrbach would allow inmates to use the testing in an appeal when the identity of the suspect was questioned at trial, and if the testing could affect...
by admin | Sep 11, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A southwest Missouri man has been charged in Columbia in a ten-year-old murder case. Investigators were able to link William Salmon to the September 1990 crime scene where Judy Pritchard was strangled inside her Columbia home. Police say it was a review of years-old...
by admin | Jun 24, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A prosecutor and a rape victim face bitter disappointment in Southwest Missouri. A man about to be sentenced in Springfield has been freed because DNA evidence indicates somebody else did the crime. Assistant Prosecutor Jill Geary, who dropped the charges after the...
by admin | Jun 15, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Missouri man wrongly convicted of an Oklahoma rape and murder is urging Congress to pass new laws giving convicted people rights to have DNA tests run that might prove their innocence. Lee’s Summit native Dennis Fritz was in an Oklahoma prison for 12 years...
