Tag: Mississippi
Posted on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 01:01:56 PM EST
Tags: Steven Hayne, Mississippi, wrongful convictions (all tags)
Dr. Steven Hayne, Mississippi's medical examiner for hire, had his faulty forensic work exposed when two inmates, wrongfully convicted in separate child murders, were exonerated a few weeks ago after serving 15 years in prison. The Innocence Project has more on his background and on the two clients recently released.
There's more news today, as the Innocence Project has filed open records requests on Dr. Hayne.
The Innocence Project and the Mississippi Innocence Project today issued 23 formal Public Records Act requests that will show the extent to which discredited medical examiner Steven Hayne is using state facilities to conduct autopsies – and potentially using federally-funded crime labs for forensic work that is fraught with negligence and misconduct.
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