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It doesn't seem to embarrass prosecutors too much when they jail someone for five months based on "conclusive DNA evidence" - even though the suspect was in hospital with a blood alcohol reading on 0.4 from two hours before the crime to 12 hours afterwards. And who'd been take to hospital by the same ambulance crew that attended the crime later on and moved the victim… You can see where this is going right? - "The paramedics physically moved both Anderson and Kumra, resulting in the inadvertent DNA transfer…"

How on earth can someone end up in jail for five months under those circumstances?

(Note too, the other suspect jailed for seven months - for, several months before the killing, posting a photo of the future-victim's house to Instagram…)

http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2013/06/28/how-innocent-m...




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