Daily Yomiuri Japan
A Nepalese man sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of robbing and killing a woman in 1997 may win a retrial after DNA tests showed that semen detected on the victim did not match that of the convicted man, it has been learned.
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Fox News 5 Nevada
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A Las Vegas police oversight panel is poised to approve a $1.5 million settlement with a man who spent four years in prison after what police now say was a DNA evidence mix-up.
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Houston Chronicle
After yet another DNA fiasco, the city needs to get serious about new crime lab.
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WWLP Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — Forensic scientists are conducting tests on a skull unearthed at the bottom of Pearl Harbor to determine if it is a Japanese pilot who died in the historic attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
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