Florida inmates are covered under a law allowing them to ask for DNA testing to prove their innocence. The law took effect two years ago after DNA proved the innocence of two Broward men convicted of murder. One of them [Frank Lee Smith] was cleared 11 months after he died of cancer on death row.
From the Miami Herald:
Florida legislators created the two-year window for testing after DNA exonerated Frank Lee Smith, a Broward County man who died of cancer on Death Row nearly a year before new testing cleared him of the 1985 rape and murder of 8-year-old Shandra Whitehead.
Since then, another South Florida man, Jerry Frank Townsend, was exonerated by DNA after having served 22 years in prison for a rape and murder that he did not commit.
High-profile national cases have brought increased attention to the issue of post-conviction testing. Last year, for instance, DNA disproved the convictions of five teenagers in the 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger in New York City.
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Note: Section 925.11 of the FL Code, which allows post-conviction DNA testing for a period of up to two years, was cited in Johnnie Bryd's Friend of the Court brief on behalf of Schiavo vs. Bush, as an example of valid legislative intervention.
A lie.
>> To enlighten you and disabuse you of your presumptions
Personal attacks like these are flagrant violations of forum rules, as I pointedly warned you the last time. You are on report for abuse.
You cited a datum from, quote, "the Cardiac Institute." I would like to see the rest of that med report if you or anyone here has it. Also any report from the Northside Hospital.