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From The Ohio InJustice Files:JoeClarke.Net Clarkence Elkins was convicted of raping and killing his mother-in-law and raping his 6 year old niece and then put away in the slammer to rot. The prosecution evidently coached the 6 year old to identify Clarence at the scene of the crime, although he had 19 witnesses saying that he was in another city - many miles away - at the time of the crime.Appeal after appeal was turned down. A praying wife and other supporters (such as the stalwarts at Innocence Project in Ohio http://www.truthinjustice.org/ipcontacts.htm) did not give up . New twist in...

In 1993, when the Supreme Court demanded real scientific standards for expert evidence in federal courts, some critics correctly anticipated that several criminal identification techniques would be attacked in the courts with some success: microscopic hair comparison, bite mark analysis, handwriting comparison. Few, if any, predicted what is happening now: The bedrock forensic identifier of the 20th century, fingerprinting, has started to wobble. In a pretrial hearing in a Philadelphia federal court in January, Judge Louis H. Pollak sharply limited the use of fingerprint evidence in a drug-related murder case. He found that there is no persuasive proof that the...