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Inmate Appeals Conviction Based on Dubious ‘Forensic Dentistry’

A disputed bite-mark identification is at the heart of a Mississippi man’s appeal of his conviction for the murder and rape of an 84-year-old woman. So reports The New York Times.

 

The man, 61-year old Eddie Lee Howard Jr., was convicted largely because an expert’s testimony matched his teeth to the victim’s purported bite wounds, examined only after her body had been buried and exhumed. Despite mounting evidence that matching rape and murder victims’ bite marks with suspects’ dentition is unreliable, courts have been reluctant to reopen cases based on even the most dubious dental claims.

 

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