May 4, 2007
Laws Proposed on Use of DNA to Help Prove Innocence
ALBANY, May 3 Alan Newton, a former bank teller from the Bronx, was freed from prison in 2006 after serving 22 years for a rape he did not commit. For more than a decade, Mr. Newton had asked the authorities to test his DNA against the physical evidence from the crime scene, only to be told that the evidence could not be found....
Filed under DNA by By MICHAEL COOPER