When DNA Evidence Suggests ‘Innocent,’ Some Prosecutors Cling to ‘Maybe’

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/dna-evidence-of-innocence-rejected-by-some-prosecutors.html?_r=1&hpw

Defense lawyers and some criminal justice experts say that the case illustrates the resistance mounted by a minority of prosecutors around the country in the face of exculpatory DNA evidence. On Wednesday, a Cook Country circuit court judge is expected to rule on whether the convictions of the four men, two of whom are still in prison, should be dismissed.