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Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Back issues
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DNA test for accused killer

ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit upheld the lower court’s decision to not dismiss a Black death-row inmate’s civil rights claims against Arkansas officials pending DNA test results that might reveal the perpetrator of the underlying capital murder was actually white.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Criminal

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