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By Frank Abderholden fabderholden@stmedianetwork.com | @abderholden June 11, 2014 2:48PM Marvin Williford, 43, of Chicago, who was convicted of murder in 2004 and sentenced to 80 years in prison. storyidforme: 67673943 tmspicid: 24105028 fileheaderid: 11879571 Updated: June 11, 2014 8:51PM New technology for testing DNA is driving a wrongful conviction argument in the case of a brutal North Chicago home invasion that resulted in the death of a man after he was doused with gasoline and lit on fire. Attorney David Owens, who works with the University of Chicago Exoneration Project, is seeking a new trial for Marvin Williford, 43, of Chicago, who was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to 80 years in prison. Williford has maintained his innocence and never confessed. Were still a few steps away, Owens said this week after a hearing in Lake County Circuit Court. Williford has a status hearing scheduled for next week. Owens is arguing that recent DNA testing of a two-by-four used in the attack on Jan. 22, 2000 does not link Williford to the crime. According to prosecutors and Willifords trial, the attack involved three men with guns who went into the home of Delwin Foxworth, 42, in the 1800 block … Continue reading →

DNA crackdown NSW Police have started tapping more than 2000 former prisoners on the shoulder, asking them for DNA samples. The move is to help solve past and future crimes but it has come as a surprise to those who have served their time and say they should be left alone. Philip Waters, 60, served time behind bars 14 years ago after being caught with about three kilograms of marijuana. "I got caught with too much in my car I was guilty, I pleaded guilty I didn't harass the court in any way or waste their time, I did it and that was it, he said. He served three months back in the days before authorities routinely collected inmates' DNA. Now, police across NSW have been ordered to make it a priority to collect samples from former prisoners, like Mr Waters, in the hope of solving crime. It's been a real push, executive-wide from the NSW Police Force and it has been filtering down to all the local area commands. They have been tasked and deployed with this as a priority to go out and retrieve these samples. Only those who reappear on police radar are targeted - and only … Continue reading →

Mexicos government is waiting for results of DNA tests that would confirm the death of Juan Jose Esparragoza, known as El Azul, the second most-wanted leader of the Sinaloa cartel at large, according to a Mexican official. The death was reported June 8 by RioDoce, a Sinaloa state-based news weekly. The Mexican official, who asked not to be named because the government has yet to confirm the death, said the authorities suspect Esparragoza died of a heart attack. The Interior Ministrys press office said it had no additional comment after Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said June 9 that the government couldnt confirm the death of Esparragoza at that time. Mike Vigil, a retired former head of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Mexican federal security sources told him they contacted family members who confirmed Esparragozas death. Esparragoza was the most-wanted Sinaloa cartel member at large after Ismael El Mayo Zambada, according to a 2009 list distributed by the government of then-President Felipe Calderon. His death, if confirmed, comes three months after the capture of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, who gained fame after escaping from a high-security prison and building up the Sinaloa cartel, named after his … Continue reading →

DECATUR Nearly 12 years after the Slovers were convicted of first-degree murder for shooting to death 23-year-old Karyn Hearn Slover, a judge ruled that items that were originally tested for fingerprints should also be tested for DNA evidence, including a partially eaten candy bar and a bag of french fries. Michael Slover Jr., 44, Karyn's former husband, and his parents, Michael Slover Sr., 68, and Jeannette Slover, 66, are serving lengthy prison sentences for the 1996 murder. Jeannette Slover was sentenced to 60 years; Michael Slover Sr. and Michael Slover Jr. were each sentenced to 65 years. Their trial was highly publicized, and the case was the subject of two TV documentaries. The basis of the ruling, released Tuesday by Macon County Associate Judge Timothy Steadman, is that the DNA testing techniques in use today were not available at the time of the investigation. Most of the items in question were not previously subjected to DNA testing, Steadman wrote, adding that the testing requested may significantly advance a claim of actual innocence. The Slovers have always maintained their innocence. The Illinois Innocence Project, based at the University of Illinois at Springfield, has been working to gain a new trial for … Continue reading →

A whale shark underneath the fishing platform Bagan, Rhincodon typus, Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua, Indonesia. Photograph: TIPS/Zuma Press Shark conservationists are tracing DNA to save endangered species and encouraging the establishment of sanctuaries for the predatory fish, according to scientists with The Pew Charitable Trusts. With shark fins shipped to Asia mainly going through Hong Kong, customs officials need to understand which sharks are listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, Imogen Zethoven, director of Washington-based Pews global shark conservation campaign, said by phone last week from a conference in Durban on South Africas south eastern coast. The most accurate way of being able to identify a shark is through DNA, she said. Members of the convention last year agreed on five species of sharks, including hammerhead varieties and the porbeagle, that will have to be traded with CITES permits with evidence that they have been harvested sustainably and legally. Hammerheads can grow to as long as 20 feet (6 meters) and weigh as much as 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms) while porbeagles can reach 12-feet in length. A quarter of species of sharks and rays are going under; as a community of researchers were figuring … Continue reading →