Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him | CNN
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A Utah judge has ordered a 71-year-old man to be released on bail after he spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing, despite objections from the victim’s family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    6 days

    Wow this case was way worse than just needing DNA… witnesses were paid in cash and gifts and threatened to deport their children if they didn’t cooperate. So there was no evidence and he was only found guilty because 2 people were paid by police to lie about what they saw.

    Then you got the daughter who I guess I can sort of get being skeptical, but her comments towards him after all this are awful.

    Theresa Olesen, a daughter in law of Eva Olesen, said during Monday’s bond hearing that her family had “serious concerns” about Carter’s release. She said he should remain in the Utah County jail, where he was being held pending a new trial.

    “By golly we were hoping for a concrete match,” Olesen said of the DNA analysis. “It doesn’t mean he wasn’t there.”

    And on top of it all the main suspect appears to now be the husband, of course, who already died in 2009. Im guessing thats something the duaghter will never believe.

  • bertlewirth@lemmy.world
    6 days

    He better get a MASSIVE payout after that for compensation. He’s lost decades of his life, living on death row never knowing if the day he wakes up is the day he learns when he dies. He better get a LOT of compensation.