Badges - Re: Las Vegas police reveal DNA error put wrong man in prison
- From: "CarlGlas" <CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:02:31 -0500
Had he been related to Gil Grissom, this would have never happened.
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From: "Ronald M. Thomason" <r4445@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Bulk] Badges - Las Vegas police reveal DNA error put wrong man in
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CSI: Las Vegas?
<http://www.lvrj.com/news/dna-related-error-led-to-wrongful-conviction-in-2001-case-125160484.html>
Las Vegas police reveal DNA error put wrong man in prison
By Lawrence Mower
AND Doug McMurdo
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Jul. 8, 2011 | 7:28 a.m.
On Jan. 28, 2008, Howard Dupree Grissom walked into High Desert State
Prison, just north of Las Vegas, after being convicted of robbery and
conspiracy to commit a violent crime.
An employee there, as was required, took a swab of DNA from inside
Grissom's mouth, and within a week sent the sample to the Metropolitan
Police Department's crime lab.
Had the lab's technicians run the sample against all other DNA evidence in
the system, police would have discovered that Grissom also was linked to a
2001 robbery -- and that the mistake had sent the wrong person to prison
for that crime.
But they didn't.
Because the lab had a policy to scan Nevada inmate DNA only against
evidence in the department's open cases -- a policy changed four weeks
ago -- Grissom was never caught.
He would spend more than two years in Nevada's prison system for that 2008
charge, and within three months of being released, he was arrested in
California for kidnapping, raping, robbing and trying to stab a woman to
death.
Las Vegas police on Thursday revealed, in an unusually candid and thorough
explanation that was praised by a national organization, that it had
bungled the DNA evidence in that 2001 robbery and caused an innocent man
to go to prison for four years.
"We sent an innocent man to prison," Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie
said. "To say this error is regrettable would be an understatement."
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