In the midst of our reporting, another man is exonerated based on Mary Jane Burton’s clippings – Winston Scott. But one thing isn’t clear: why was Scott convicted in the first place? Reporter Tessa Kramer takes the original serology reports to an expert. Did Burton have a hand in Scott’s conviction?
More information on the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, including former MAIP attorneys Frances Walters and Parisa Dehghani-Tafti: https://exonerate.org/
More information on the case of Winston Scott: https://exonerate.org/all-project-list/winston-scott/
More information on serologist Marilyn Miller of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU): https://news.vcu.edu/article/marilyn_miller_crime_scene_guru_and_founding_forensic_science
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03/21/23 • 28 min
Admissible: Shreds of Evidence - Ch. 8 - Lights and Sirens
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From story Mechanics top now to a story that's all new at eleven, an innocent man is finally free of the crime that ruined his life. In the spring of twenty nineteen, in the midst of my reporting, news broke of a thirteenth man being cleared. Winston Scott was convicted of raping a woman more than forty years ago. But it turns out he's innocent. The Virginia Supreme Court just cleared his name. Winston Scott was cleared by DNA testing on Mary Jan
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