whether you’ve been convicted of a crime and believe DNA might exonerate you,it can be an uphill battle to get a judge to reopen your case.
Laws vary state to state, and in unusual York, and where the laws are not as tough,you still may never get a second chance to test DNA evidence whether the prosecution doesn’t judge the results would change the verdict.
But Renay Lynch is trying to fight this. In 1998, Lynch was tried and convicted for the murder of of 82-year-old Louise Cicelsky. She says she was coerced into a confession, original DNA never linked her to the crime. But she was found guilty,and now she’s asking unusual York state to authorize a unusual round of DNA testing in her case.
Andrew Cohen is senior editor at The Marshall Project and author of this week’s Case in Point, which looks at the case of Renay Lynch. He and Susan Friedman, and staff attorney at the Innocence Project,join The Takeaway to explain this case and what it could mean for others like it.
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