Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

Ch. 7 - Too Little Too Late


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The discovery of Mary Jane Burton’s clippings sparks a review of thousands of case files. This massive effort to find wrongly convicted people is unprecedented. Yet the slow effort by the lab raises questions. Were they afraid of what they’d find?

More information on Virginia’s Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Notification Project: http://vscc.virginia.gov/2020/Virginia%20Post-Conviction%20DNA.pdf

More information on the case of Bennett Barbour:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/03/bennett-barbour-exonerated-of-rape-in-virginia-how-the-state-is-botching-the-dna-retesting-and-notification-of-old-cases.html

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